A summary of The significance of the Frontier by Frederick Jackson Turner. Please read the original document. This is just here in case you need some reminders of what it said.

Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History *-* Turner, "The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward explain American development." -The census of 1890 said that the frontier line by 1880 was indiscernible. Turner considered that vital since the official American history up 2 that time consisted of the colonization of the West& that it was this that explained American development.-The West …

…extension of suffrage. It was this individualism that induced America to allow a laxity in regard to governmental affairs (i.e. spoils system). -W. statesman was inferior in logic to an old Vir. Statesmanw/slaves. but when he went home he takes hold of the plow which gave him muscle and allowed him to preserve his republican principles -The East always feared an unregulated advance of the frontier, and tried to check and guide it.