When the first phase of FDR's New Deal did not end the Depression, frustration with ... Farmers • African-Americans • Women Final Measures; Growing Opposition .... o He put friends in high positions which they abused ... o Employed jobless young men on conservation projects .... o Impose greater government regulationNew deal fights the depression main idea and relevance ... Who did Roosevelt work with before becoming president? .... Put young men, ages 18-25, working by building roads, developing parks, planting trees, helping soil-erosion, flood-control projects. ..... Helped many groups like women, blacks, Native Americans.