frontier settlement

What Does Turner Say Is Changing About America In 1893?

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What Does Turner Say Is Changing About America In 1893? The frontier thesis or Turner thesis (also American frontierism), is the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that American democracy was formed by the American frontier. He stressed the process—the moving frontier line—and the impact it had on pioneers going through the

How Did Settlers Perceptions And Use Of The Great Plains Change After The Civil War?

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How Did Settlers Perceptions And Use Of The Great Plains Change After The Civil War? How did people’s perceptions and use of the Great Plains change after the Civil War? Because of new technologies, people began to see the Great Plains not as a “treeless wasteland”, but as a vast area to be settled. How