In 1932 America needed a new leader to save it from the economic collapse that had occurred only 3 years earlier. President Hoover was not helping the American economy, so when the 1932 election came it was time for a new president and a new deal. When President Roosevelt was sworn in, America was in the midst of the greatest economic depression it had ever seen. In the first 100 days of his presidency he oversaw the founding of nearly 20 new government agencies aimed at helping the American people. But did these agencies really work? Were they revolutionaries? How have they changed America? First, many of the New Deal organizations established by the Roosevelt administration were not successful, and if they were, they were only successful for a short time. In 1929 the number of unemployed people in America was approximately 2.6 million. After the creation of several organizations aimed at reducing that number, such as the CCC and the CWA, unemployment increased from 1929 to 1933 to reach 15 million. It dropped to 11 million in 1935, and then to 8.3 in 1937, but this is still grotesquely high....