Frederick Jackson Turner: Frontier Thesis APUSH - Spiconardi

Arguments As the U.S. expanded, America experienced a rebirth with each new expansion (Alleghenies, Mississippi River, Missouri, Rocky Mountains) European customs and mores conflicted with the primitive frontier America had to form a new national identity Americans had to adapt or be conquered by the wilderness Frontier caused America to be less dependent on England The West transformed Jeffersonian democracy into the national republicanism of Monroe and Jacksonian democracy

“Political Institutions and the Frontier” – Benjamin F. Wright Jr.

“Sections – or Classes?” – Louis M. Hacker

“The Frontier and American Institutions” –George Wilson Pierson

“The American Frontier – Frontier of What?” – Carlton J.H. Hayes