of "personal truth‚" we must proceed... <br><br>Perhaps the most famous of all progressive historians is Frederick Jackson Turner. His most famous argument is not devoted strictly to the American Revolution‚ but instead to the effects of the American frontier. In a sentence‚ his argument is that the frontier was the chief determinant in American history. <br><br>This is not to say that Turner did not write about the war; he did‚ in his seminal work‚ "The Frontier in American History‚"
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Perhaps the most famous of all progressive historians is Frederick Jackson Turner. His most famous argument is not devoted strictly to the American Revolution‚ but instead to the effects of the American frontier. In a sentence‚ his argument is that the frontier was the chief determinant in American history. This is not to say that Turner did not write about the war; he did. Even in his seminal work‚ The Frontier in American History‚ there are discussions of the frontier’’s effect on the coming
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seize New Orleans (1815). After the War of 1812 the American movement West focused primarily on the territory east of the Mississippi. Here the Erie Canal played an important role. There were wars with the Native Americans‚ which helped make Andrew Jackson the prominent political figure overseeing this period. The only American president with an era named after him. The frontier‚ which at first seemed endless played a powerful role in the development of the American character. The existence of huge
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According to the thesis of Fredrick Jackson Turner‚ the frontier changed America. Americans‚ from the earliest settlement‚ were always on the frontier‚ for they were always expanding to the west. It was Manifest Destiny; spreading American culture westward was so apparent and so powerful that it couldn’t be stopped. Turner’s Frontier Theory says that this continuous exposure to the frontier has shaped the American character. The frontier made the American settlers revert back to the primitive
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US History I Honors Frontier Thesis Jan. 14‚ 2012 Frontier Thesis Analysis Throughout the early 20th Century‚ Fredrick Jackson Turner changed many people’s views on evolution by creating his idea of the Frontier Thesis. Throughout his entire thesis he explained that the more west the settlers move‚ the more distant and individualized they become from their homeland of Europe. After receiving his PhD from Johns Hopkins University and later becoming a professor of history at Wisconsin
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The American Frontier was a time that required influential judgment to shape the nation‚ involving promises of a new identity‚ eager to prospect. Frederick Jackson Turner was an all-time American historian who was famously known for the “Frontier Thesis”. For 40 years‚ he studied the Frontier Thesis‚ ending in 1994 when he wrote the main article‚ “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” in 1893. Reliable‚ Turner’s work seemed to convince others to unite with him because he offered plans
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Alicia Alcaraz Period 3 AP U.S. History December 8‚ 2014 APUSH Chapters 27 & 28 Homework Assignment Chapter 27: 1. Whites finally overcame resistance of the Plains Indians ultimately with various factors. The whites had a fire-and-sword policy that was the last step to shatter the spirit of the Indians. The railroad‚ diseases‚ locomotives‚ and the near-extinction of the Buffalo in the plains all contributed to the “taming” of the Plains Indians. The railroad sprang right through the heart of the
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In Frederick Jackson Turners Frontier Thesis‚ he defines the frontier as a meeting point between savagery and civilization and wilderness that shapes people. After migrating to the frontier‚ the colonists are finally able to overcome it and make it their own and creates an opportunity for settlers to start fresh or stay put. Americanization occurred at the frontier when settlers began transforming it into their own version of their homelands. This concept would eventually lead to the settlement further
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Notes: In Fredrick Jackson Turner’s paper‚ “The Significance of the Frontier in American History-1893” his argument is how the American culture has evolved rapidly throughout it’s history despite certain setbacks and these are some of the highlight points from his article. American society‚ since the beginning of its simple state of formation has always had an urge to colonize to the west and explore for new opportunities of success and power. “The wilderness masters the colonists” is a very
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