Question

What was the main reason President Harding struggled to achieve his campaign promise of “a return to normalcy”?
The government spent most of its time regulating business.
Social changes were happening very quickly.
Harding spent much of his time assisting European nations.
Political changes happened very slowly.

Answer 1

Social changes were happening very quickly.

After World War I the U.S. experienced rapid social and cultural shifts — urbanization, the Great Migration, women's suffrage, Prohibition, labor unrest, new consumer technologies and attitudes — that made it impossible to simply revert to a prewar “normalcy.”