The new deal involved laws and programs that aimed to solve the problems of the depression. reduce corporate power over the government. improve income equality across the country. move the depression into a recession.

Solve the problems of the Depression: FDR focused on relief, recovery, and reform as his approach to the Depression. 

The New Deal had three goals--relief, recovery, and reform. Reform focused on fixing the banking system, setting up programs for farmers, commission overseeing the stock market, and creating aid programs to prevent a depression like the Great Depression from ever happening again.