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 compelled ppl to adapt themselves& 2 developing each area out of its primitive economic/political conditions. - Its isolation led to the need of transportation.
…
