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if you mean: "....in the USA", the oldest welfare legislation was the 1862 legislation providing pensions for Union soldiers disabled in the war. The first general welfare legislation in the USA came in 1935 with the Social Security Act. As to 'why': the reason was the Great Depression with its resulting massive unimployment and often desperate hunger and poverty. Originally, payments had the form of incidental, lump-sum payments. Only in 1940 welfare payments became regular monthly payments.

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Essentially it could be said that modern warfare began in the civil war. Many things were created in the civil war to help troops fight better. Flame throwers, repeating rifles, submarines, torpedos, barb wire, air reconnaissance, ambulance, are just a few things used in the war for the first time. It is also the first photographed war in history.

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