A growing sense of democracy and equality.
The quote highlights the numerous associations and organizations that Americans of all ages and conditions are involved in, which reflect a sense of democracy and equality. This suggests that a change is happening in the US under President Andrew Jackson towards a more inclusive and participatory society.
Americans of all ages, all conditions, all minds constantly unite. Not only do they have commercial and industrial associations in which all take part, but they also have a thousand other kinds: religious, moral, grave, futile, very general and very particular, immense and very small; Americans use associations to give fêtes, to found seminaries, to build inns, to raise churches, to distribute books, to send missionaries to the antipodes; in this manner they create hospitals, prisons, schools. - Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America Use this quote from Alexis de Tocqueville’s book Democracy in America to answer the following question:
What changes are happening in the US under President Andrew Jackson that support the quote?
A growing sense that the government was taking over
A growing divide between the rich and the poor
A growing sense of increased rights for women
A growing sense of democracy and equality
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