The Turner (Frontier) Thesis

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The Turner (Frontier) Thesis Frederick Jackson Turner "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," (1893) Major points: Turner conceived of the West not as a place but a process - a series of Wests in a receding frontier line - the point where savagery meets civilization. For Turner, American history is largely about people leaving settled areas for the frontier, and their struggle to find new ways to live in new lands. This struggle explains American development, according to Turner. The frontier produces American democracy and individualism- the frontier requires Americans to develop new institutions and "Free land makes free men." Finally, Turner claimed that in 1890 the frontier was closed, ending the first stage of American development. This created uncertainty, for if the frontier no longer existed, how would American democratic development be maintained?