Frontier thesis
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The Frontier Thesis or Turner Thesis, 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 process. He also stressed results, especially that American democracy was the primary result, along with egalitarianism, a lack of interest in high culture, and violence. "American democracy was born of no theorist's dream; it was not carried in the Susan Constant to Virginia, nor in the Mayflower to Plymouth. It came out of the American forest, and it gained new strength each time it touched a new frontier," said Turner.
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People referenced by Turner
- Lyman Beecher
- Thomas Benton
- Edmund Burke
- John C. Calhoun
- Christopher Columbus
- Francis Grund
- Hermann von Holst
- Andrew Jackson
- James Madison
- James Monroe
- John Mason Peck
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