How did Warren G. Harding’s pledge of a “return to normalcy” affect the U.S. economy? A. It favored liberal policies that slowed economic growth.

B. It aided the growth of business resulting in economic growth.

C. It continued the Progressives’ cause for reform resulting in little economic growth.

D. It caused an increase in taxes resulting in economic growth.
Its (B) btw

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Explanation:

Fear of social unrest, combined with a growing concern about communist revolution, produced one of the most repressive periods in American history.

America had gotten tired of Wilsonian idealism and progressive reform.

Warren G. Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920.

His promise was to return the United States to pre-world war mentality.

"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 D