The New Deal was created to make the United States a more convenient country for Americans in need. It was established during the first term of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. The New Deal was a chain of programs aimed at helping the United States combat the poverty that prevailed at that time. Poverty has had a major impact on Americans; lack of employment, depression, homelessness, and more. Often, families will feel like they are useless to their own family, because they cannot provide anything for them. According to Franklin D. Roosevelt (2009, paragraph 1), the New Deal was determined in three stages: relief, recovery and reform; each had its own meaning. Like everything in history, everything has a cause, including the New Deal. Sometimes the result of this cause is significant and reverberates across different generations. A good example is the New Deal because even though the programs were established years ago, some still exist today and many people benefit from them. The main cause of the New Deal was the stock market crash, known as the Great Depression. On October 29, 1929, also known as Black Tuesday, the world turned upside down (Charles Scaliger, 2008, p.34, para. 1). He says this because that's the day the stock market crashed and everything started happening. There was a significant increase in unemployment, lack of consumer purchases, losses of homes and farms as mortgages failed, and strikes and riots when workers could no longer earn wages. family (Phyllis J. Day, 2009, p. 284). All these consequences of the crash affected not only the United States, but also the whole world, because no one had money to buy things to revive the economy. According to Phyllis Day (2009, p. 284, para. 3), t... ... middle of paper ......s and more. Although it serves different races, racism remains a problem, because it is not forbidden to have prejudices, but simply to avoid them. Basically the idea was to not get caught up in discriminating, which wasn't fair because many people of different colors were in the same situation as others. One idea of ​​President Roosevelt, which was completely opposed to that of President Hoover, was the control of production. The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) showed the major difference between the two presidents. While President Hoover believed that prices had to be raised so that the economy could grow, President Roosevelt believed the opposite. This program stipulated that companies should not raise prices just because the economy was bad. This program led to unionization, because now the court was actually on the side of the workers, rather than the employees (Phyllis Day, 2009, p.. 289).