What aspects of american culture in 1835 may have led alexis de tocqueville to make this claim about americans and money? “as one digs deeper into the national character of the americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? ”

Alexis de Tocqueville state in this Democracy of America that America is a land of Democracy and America is inherently good and that is the reason for her to be great.  

Tocqueville is greatly amazed to see the pulpits were a flame with the speeches of righteousness and the American Culture fought for and supported egalitarianism relentlessly.

Tocqueville also says that if American society was supposed to be run by any superior authority, it cannot succeed, as democracy is inherently seen and believed in the land of America.

the answer is a) to be able to obey them.