Historian Frederick Jackson Frontier Thesis
Date Submitted: 02/12/2004 14:38:39
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 3 pages (755 words)
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 3 pages (755 words)
The Census Bureau in 1890 proclaimed the western frontier closed. Nevertheless, three years later Historian Frederick Jackson Turner from Wisconsin University gave his now famous "frontier thesis" at the American Historical Association. Frederick Turner ran with the "closing of the frontier" as an opportunity to show the influence it had on American life. Turner's essay emphasized that the promotion of individualistic democracy was a main effect of the frontier. Up to our own day, American history …
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Black Hills Information Web Home Page Copyright 1997 James Taylor John W. Quinn
http://www.blackhills-info.com/quinn/Frontier.html
Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis 2001 The West Film Project and WETA Credits http://www.pgs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/turner.htm
Encyclopedia of American History pg. 611
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