Question

What was the concept of "normalcy" based on?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

The correct answer is B) nostalgia for an earlier America.

The concept of "normalcy" was based on a nostalgia for an earlier America.

When people refer to phrases such as "...in my times, things were much better..." or "when I was in college in the 1960s, life was much easier..." they are talking with nostalgia, remembering better days in the past that won't come back. Nostalgia is generally defined as a feeling of good memories, goof feelings accompanied with some sadness for the things that happened in the past or the ways used to be in the past. That is why people have nostalgy of how things were in America in the past