Although Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal helped many people, it did not end the Great Depression. The depression continued throughout the 1930's after the New Deal reforms were in motion. Many people, such as farmers, the elderly and the poor benefited from Roosevelt's reform. The New Deal restored confidence in the government for the American people; they knew they could trust the government to help when the economy had failed. One of the first things on Roosevelt's agenda was the banking failures. The Emergency Banking Act was one of the first policies he had passed. This bill was "designed primarily to protect the larger banks from being dragged down by the smaller ones." (1) The Glass-Steagall Banking Act in 1933, was another important act for banking and Americans. This act created the Federal Deposit Insurance Company, or FDIC, which guaranteed bank deposits up to twenty-five hundred dollars, in case a bank...