During the first half of the nineteenth century, individualism: a. was defined in a way that distinguished it completely from the idea of privacy. b. came under attack from henry david thoreau. c. was rooted in the idea of self-sufficiency. d. hampered efforts to spread democracy because it reduced interest in suffrage. e. was a subject on which all transcendentalists agreed.

(c) Was rooted in the idea of self-sufficiency

Explanation:

Self-sufficiency are covering conditions of being in which an individual or association needs next to zero help from, or connection with, others. self-sufficiency involves oneself being sufficient (to satisfy needs), and a self-supporting substance can keep up independence uncertainly.

These states speak to kinds of individual or aggregate autonomy.A self-sufficient economy is one that requires almost no exchange with the outside world and is called an autarky.

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