The New Deal has become famous for creating an "alphabet soup" of government agencies that were referred to by their initials. These agencies worked to accomplish the three main goals of the New Deal: to relieve those suffering from the effects of the Great Depression, recover the depressed the economy, and reform the society so such a crisis would be avoided in the future. Though not all of these agencies proved to be successful, some helped to shape America. The Federal Deposit Insurance Cooperation, proving to be the most effective, provided America with the courage it had lacked since the day of the stock market crash, the courage to trust the banking systems and reinvest their money, but the Indian Reorganization Act seemed to have no effect on the economy or any significance to the three aims of the New Deal.
By 1933, America had lost billions of dollars due to the bank failures, but had also just gained their only hope to rebuild their economy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.......
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