Question

What was the main goal that the US tried to achieve with the new deal? @samtasticc

Answer 1

Since I have not studied the ND, and I have guessed that it is tax related do you mind posting a paragraph about it from your textbook that might help me? :D

Answer 2

Depends who you mean. The goal of FDR and the Democrats who built it was to build a permanent Democratic majority, so they could keep power forever and ever. They did pretty well at that: FDR was re-elected until he died, four times, and the Democrats kept power off and on all the way until the Reagan Revolution of the 80s.

The goal of the people who elected them was to stop the misery of the Great Depression. There was a widespread belief, common among men in a bad situation, that there was some small party of wicked people responsible for all the misery, by hoarding all the money, and that if their wealth could be taken all would be well. Another common thread was that the individualism of the 1920s had been the real problem, and that a collectivist attitude would be necessary to solve real problems. (These feelings drove actual collectivist revolutions in the Europe, of course, from the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 to the accession of the Fascists in Italy in the 1920s and the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s.)

Hence the solutions offered by FDR, which were generally collectivist -- things like Social Security, wage and price controls, industrial cartels, special legal status for unions, considerably increased power of the Federal government -- were popular.