In 1932, Americans realized that they had an increasingly
             great financial problem on their hands, and tried to correct it by
             centralizing power. The President acquired so much power that the
             nation almost became a communism, especially with Roosevelt's
             When Franklin Roosevelt became President of the United States
             in 1933, the nation was in the depths of the worst depression it had
             ever experienced. President Roosevelt, a very energetic and
             enthusiastic person, inspired the people with his own confidence and
             faith in the future. He gathered a group of people sharing his views
             to help him, and provided food, clothing, and shelter for millions of
             unemployed and poverty-stricken Americans. This was part of what he
             called the New Deal, of which his three objectives were relief,
             recovery, and reform for American citizens. In another attempt at
             recovery, Congress attempted to revive the nation's agriculture and
             industry and place the economy on a solid foundation. They printed
             extra money to loan to industries that quickly paid it back. By 1933
             nearly 14 million Americans were jobless. In response, the Roosevelt
             administration immediately launched what seemed at the time to be a
             wonderful program of direct relief. In 2 years, federal agencies
             distributed 3 billion dollars to the states. However, the people
             unemployed wanted jobs, not welfare, thus the Works Progress
             Administration (WPA) came into existence. This helped restore some of
             By 1936, the New Deal program faced a large and growing body
             of opposition, some from within the Democratic Party itself. Many
             critics felt that the government was interfering too much with the
             free enterprise system, and in doing so, was threatening individualism
             and democracy. This absorption of power by the president is what is
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