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What was Tocqueville’s concern with individualism in America?

AIndividualism would result in taking power from the government.
BIndividualism would cause too much competition in the free market.
CToo much individualism could take the focus away from supporting the common good.
DThe government would attempt to stifle individualism if it feared being overthrown.
EIndividualism could lead to a bigger gap among income groups.

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"C) Too much individualism could take the focus away from supporting the common good" is the best option, since Tocqueville's main concern was that this individual freedom led people to isolate themselves from society. 

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Tocqueville’s concern with individualism in America was that too much individualism could take the focus away from supporting the common good. Option C is correct.

Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, Viscount de Tocqueville was a French diplomat, political scientist and historian. He was active in French politics, first during  the July Monarchy (1830–1848) and then during the Second Republic (1849–1851) which succeeded the February 1848 Revolution.  

He asserted the importance of the French Revolution was to continue the process of modernizing and centralizing the French state.

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