<span>- Increase minimum wage
- National health insurance - not implemented
- Expand public housing
- Expand social security - 1950 law added previously excluded self-employed and
domestic workers to Social security
- Expand aid to education
- Private welfare arrangements thrived: labor contracts of unionized workers established
health insurance plans, automatic cost of living wage increases, paid vacations, and pension plans that supplemented social security</span>
The correct answer is: "the Enlightment period".
The Enlighment movement emerged in Europe and was constituted by philosophers that promoted Reason and the scientific method over medieval superstition and religious dogmas, and the establishment of democratic societies where the power resided on its people, and not in monarchs or rulers "appointed by God". The resulting states enacted bills of civil rights for the first time in history, and implemented principles such as the division of powers or the social contract, through which citizens elected their governors by suffrage.
Such Enlightment principles were transferred to the American colonies, where the population claimed for political representation rather than being governed by foreigners that were appointed by a foreign king. Such claims were ignored and, influenced by the new democratic principles, the revolutionary movements for independence aroused.
The Agricultural Revolution of the 18th century paved the way for the Industrial Revolution in Britain. New farming techniques and improved livestock breeding led to amplified food production. This allowed a spike in population and increased health. The new farming techniques also led to an enclosure movement.
B. Rutherford B. Hayes became president.
