How Did The New Deal Change

In 1933, following President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s election to the White House, a new era called the New Deal began. The main motivation behind this change was the Great Depression where “the nation in the 1930s had sunk into the deepest economic depression in its history, an unprecedented catastrophe that called for measures that would necessarily break down old constraints on the use of federal powers” (Lawson). Yet, as author Alan Lawson notes, the New Deal also revolved around the reform ideas in the years following World War I and the massive number of racial and ethnic minorities who were ready to embrace new changes that will end “their long-standing grievances and disadvantages.” Eleanor Roosevelt, one of the activist of that time