Description and partial answer acceptable. A biography by Olivier Zunz criticizes a participant in this event who took literally John Power’s claim that only Catholics experienced “true faith.” The participants in this event were given letters of introduction to Secretary of State Edward Livingstone by Inspector General Charles Lucas. Literary works inspired by this event include the novel Marie, about an interracial couple living among the Cherokee, and a poetic essay about spending “Two Weeks in the Wilderness” in northern Michigan. One participant in this event noted how despite (*) “equally favorable situations,” the left and right banks of the Ohio River had markedly different population densities due to slavery. For 10 points, a report recommending the Pennsylvania system of solitary confinement was written following what journey undertaken by two French aristocrats? ■END■
ANSWER: Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont’s journey to America [accept Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville’s journey to America; accept Comte Gustave Auguste Bonnin de la Bonninière de Beaumont’s journey to America; accept the “US” or “USA” or “United States” or “Canada” or “North America” in place of “America”; prompt on Tocqueville’s journey or Beaumont’s journey by asking “to where?”] (The Zunz biography is The Man Who Understood Democracy.)
<CS, American History>
= Average correct buzz position