Refer to the excerpt from "Democracy in America." Then, choose the best answer. Use a dictionary resource for any words you do not understand. When figuring out the meaning of a word, use the context (its surrounding text) to help determine the correct dictionary meaning.

In the first two paragraphs, the author is ___.
giving reasons why an aristocracy is better than America’s democracy, which will eventually fail
expressing the timeline of events of the American Revolution and its government
contrasting citizens of a different country and a different government with people in America
setting up a problem to give a solution to help unhappy people find happiness