Is American culture antithetical to generous social policy?
- John Calvin
- predestination
- individualism / traditionalism
- Social Darwinism
The English Poor Laws
- The Victorian Poor Law and Life in the Workhouse.
- Poor Relief in the Early America.
U.S. Constitution
- delegated powers
- - commerce
- - security
- reserved powers
- - police powers
- - - health
- - - welfare
- - - safety
- - - morals
- implied powers
Labor policies
- indentured servitude
- slavery
- Department of Labor
- Wagner Act
Education policy
- military academies
- land grant universities
- Department of HEW - 1953
- - First Secretary - Texan Oveta Culp Hobby
Health policy
Focusing events
- Civil War
- - pensions
- Westward migration
- Great Depression
- - Social Security
Movements
- Progressives Movement
- - child policy - labor / schools / childhood
- - pure food and drugs
- - professionalism
- - labor policy / unionism / minimum wages / maximum work weeks / overtime
- - women's suffrage
- - racial equality
- - political reforms / party machines /
- - rural development
New Federalism
