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

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Alexis de Tocqueville, a French political thinker and historian, visited the United States in the early 1830s to study its system of government and its political culture. His observations and analyses were published in his influential work, "Democracy in America," which sought to understand how democracy was able to function in the U.S. and what made the American political system unique.

Why Was Alexis De Tocqueville Interested in Visiting the United