Well According to Turner‚ the westward movement Americanized the pioneer‚ shaped American institutions‚ and promoted democracy. However‚ it was a long time before historians started questioning Turner’s frontier thesis‚ so strong was the appeal to Americans’ imagination generated by this justification of American exceptionalism. The New western history in the late 1980’s rejected the nation of the frontier all together.New Historians suggested a rewriting of the Western past that focused on the West
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At this time‚ my paper will be split into an evolutionary model‚ I will use the primary argument (Turner) and then trace how subsequent authors have agreed (Webb)‚ disagreed (Limerick‚ White)‚ tweaked (Billington) and broadened (Susman) the original thesis. I currently have two supporting books (Nichols and Taylor) and a variety of supporting periodicals. I have already read three of the books‚ and I feel that they should fit into the preceeding categories‚ however‚ once I get through all of them
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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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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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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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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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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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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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