CLEP US History I

Category - Culture

The democratic attributes of the United States were advanced and articulated in the writing of which of the following early 19th century authors?
  1. Henry James
  2. Thomas Paine
  3. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  4. The Marquis de Lafayette
  5. Alexis de Tocqueville
Explanation
Answer: E -Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America detailed his extended visit to the United States and his observations about the society that he found there. His perception of the highly developed democracy in the nation helped define not only American abroad, but also its own sense of itself a growing, democratic nation. Although written by a Frenchman, it remains one of the most significant works on American democracy in the 19th century.
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