WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Americans elected theirleaders while most other countries were governed by hereditary rulers
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Americans had a class of hereditary nobles who sawthemselves as better than others from birth
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Americans managed to survive despite threats frompowerful neighboring countries
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Americans placed so much emphasis on serving thecommunity that individual rights were often ignored
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Detailed explanation-1: -US. 22A Discuss Alexis de Tocqueville’s five values crucial to America’s success as a constitutional republic: liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and laissez-faire.
Detailed explanation-2: -De Tocqueville perceived the United States as egalitarian, individualistic, decentralized, religious, property loving, and lightly governed.
Detailed explanation-3: -Tocqueville’s sojourn in America did lead to the writing of a book on the American penal system, but its much more important result was the reflection on equality and freedom known as Democracy in America.
Detailed explanation-4: -He is best known for his works Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes, 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856). In both, he analyzed the living standards and social conditions of individuals as well as their relationship to the market and state in Western societies.