How successful was the New Deal in achieving its aims?

... How successful was the New Deal in achieving its aims? After the continuous downward spiral following the Wall Street crash in 1929, America had hit rock bottom and went through a long depression. The New Deal came in 1933 along with Roosevelt when he was elected, and became president. The aim of The New Deal was to do whatever was needed to rescue America from its depression. By the time Roosevelt came into power America had been in depression for almost four years and a very large amount of people had withdrawn their money from their savings accounts in banks. More and more money was being withdrawn as time went on and it was feared that soon enough, everyone would withdraw their money and all the banks would go bust and close, thus decreasing the probability that the revival of America's economy would come any time soon. Therefore this

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