Question

What was the concept of "normalcy" based on? A. pride in winning the war. . B. nostalgia for an earlier America. . C. America's expanding role in world affairs. . D. getting Britain and France to repay war loans

Answer 1

Answer: B. nostalgia for an earlier America.

"Return to normalcy" was Warren B. Harding's campaign slogan for the election of 1920. Harding intended the phrase to evoke nostalgia for America's way of life before the war (WWI). He expressed this intention by stating:

"America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality."

Answer 2

The concept of "normalcy" was based on nostalgia for an earlier America. The idea of nostalgia was new in Americans and since America was a new country, the forefathers wanted progress and did not want to look back in the past mentality.

The answer would be letter B.