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 …
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…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.