What was the intent of the Roosevelt administration's New Deal basically about

The intent of the New Deal was to get the United States's
economy out of the Great Depression.  That was really its only
goal.

The thing that made it a "new" deal was that fact
that this was the first time that the government had decided that it needed to help
ensure that the people were able to get by -- that they would not be too
poor.

Up until this point, the government pretty much just
kept out of the way and let the economy do its own thing.  But now, FDR decided that
there should be a new deal -- one where people could expect that the government would
help to protect them from hard times.