During the Great Depression, people across the United States faced many difficulties and life-changing adversities. In fact, some men went through the entire Great Depression without finding employment and had great difficulty accepting financial and material assistance from the government. The Great Depression affected all groups, ages and races of people. African Americans and business owners were two groups particularly hard hit by the Great Depression. They share similar and different experiences during the Great Depression. Many men abandoned their families because they felt like they had let their family down and could no longer look at them the same way. The same concept happened with teenagers: they left their families to ease the burden on them. These children were called "Wild Boys", most of them went west to find work. When Roosevelt came to power, the country's banking and credit system was in very poor shape, so Roosevelt created a national banking holiday. Job aid came from the Civil Works Administration (CWA), although it was criticized as "job creating", jobs funded a variety of jobs ranging from highway repair to teaching and even when digging. FDR and his top officers still favored unemployment programs. Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal years were characterized by the belief that greater command would solve many of the nation's problems. Congress passed the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) to provide economic relief to farmers, and by the time the act became law, the growing season was already well underway and the AAA encouraged farmers to plow their abundant harvests. Yet, through the AAA and the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), a New Deal project that aimed to promote environmental protection and develop good citizens...... middle of paper .... .. l complaints about the In the New Deal, Roosevelt won an even more decisive victory than in the 1932 presidential election. Roosevelt took 60 percent of the population and carried every state other than Maine and Vermont. In these elections, a new alliance with the Democratic Party emerged, consisting of workers, mostly farmers, immigrants and urban ethnic groups from Eastern and Southern Europe, African Americans and South. Some critics of the New Deal claimed that indecisive additions to government functions would ultimately threaten the liberty of the people, but to protect them we must prove that the practical operation of a democratic government is equal to the task of protecting security of the people. The American people agree to protect their freedoms at all costs, and the first line of defense lies in protecting economic security...