Alexis de Tocqueville

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

Name:

Date:

Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/alexis-de-tocqueville

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. When was Alexis de Tocqueville born?July 29, 1805
2. When did Alexis de Tocqueville die?April 16, 1859 (age 53)
3. Where was Alexis de Tocqueville born?Paris, France
4. What is the career?Magistrate, political theorist, historian, and statesman
5. Who was Alexis de Tocqueville?Alexis de Tocqueville was a French aristocrat who studied politics and wrote about American democracy.
6. Why did he travel to America?He went to America to learn about its democracy and to study its prisons, hoping to understand how a republic works.

Popular Sovereignty: The principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people.
Associational Life: The tendency of citizens in democratic societies to form voluntary groups and organizations to pursue common interests.
Social Atomization: The process by which individuals become increasingly isolated from society, leading to a breakdown of social bonds.