Author Question: Why was Alexis de Tocqueville interested in visiting the United States? A) To help establish a ... (Read 131 times)

saraeharris · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Why was Alexis de Tocqueville interested in visiting the United States?

A) To help establish a cotton mill in Waltham
B) To investigate American democracy
C) To find a location where he could hide from the French secret police
D) To demonstrate that American society was teetering on collapse and headed for another revolution
E) To investigate the causes of the long economic depression that had caused so much hardship in the new nation

Question 2

As pioneers moved westward between 1790 and 1820, where did they tend to settle?

A) They tended to settle in large urban areas where jobs were available
B) They tended to settle on lakes and ponds away from other human society
C) They tended to settle along railroad lines where they could meet new people
D) They tended to settle in desolate plains or isolated forests, as far from other settlers as possible
E) They tended to settle along rivers and with people from the same region back East