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Quiz for Document 11–3: Alexis de Toqueville, Democracy in America, 1835

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What future did Tocqueville predict for Europeans, Indians, and African Americans?

Indians were going to prevail in the Mississippi West, and slavery would stabilize in the East.

African Americans would emigrate soon, and Europeans and Indians were going to end up in a race war.

Democratic government would eventually bring about harmony between the three different groups.

Indians were sure to perish, whereas a devastating civil war between blacks and whites was most likely.

2. Which of the following was a barrier between the three races, according to Tocqueville?

Religious beliefs and practices

Language

Education and law

Geographical distance

3. How did Tocqueville describe European treatment of the other races?

Europeans treated the other races like subservient animals.

They treated the Indians with respect but were cruel to the African Americans.

They were equals to the African Americans and Indians.

The Europeans treated the other races like small children.

4. How had the European presence in the United States impacted the Indian tribes?

It forced them to flee to Canada.

It caused infighting among various tribes.

It destroyed their traditions and made them very disorderly.

It caused them to violently rebel.