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A Growing Nation (1800-1870)Unit 3 Outline: A Growing Nation (1800-1870)Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville wrote Democracy in America observing that Americans has a “lively faith in the perfectibility of man”the bustling spirit that had enchanted Tocqueville in 1831 would make for a turbulent “tomorrow” in the decades to comeBy 1870 industrialism, explosive population and economic growth,.