Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal brought unprecedented changes to American life in order to address a crisis of a scale far larger than any previous crisis faced in the nation's history. How did the New Deal change Americans relationship to and view of the federal government of the United States? How did the New Deal differently impact different Americans? What was the experience for African Americans as opposed to whites? For the rich as opposed to the poor? How did World War II accelerate the changes in society brought on by the New Deal?