"Americans expected the future to be worse than the past" was the main idea of President Carter's "Crisis of Confidence" speech.
<u>Option: C</u>
<u>Explanation:</u>
President Carter's address on "Crisis of Confidence" was triggered by the energy crisis and recession in the country. He himself was a strongly religious man, placed forth the notion that a moral and theological problem at its heart was America's dilemma.
A lack of social and spiritual confidence, as he put it, meant Americans found themselves too poor to pull themselves out of economic malaise, which was forcing them to imagine that future will be more devastating than the past. He also admitted a share of the blame himself, not being powerful enough in his governance on topics such as energy use and oil resource use.
