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Frederick Jackson Turner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Frontier Thesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Frontier Thesis is the conclusion put forth by Frederick Jackson Turner that the wellsprings of American exceptionalism created freedom, constantly named as civilization, "breaking the bond of c...
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Born in Portage, Wisconsin, Turner spent most of his early adult life at the University of Wisconsin. He received his B.A. in 1884, then his M.A. in History in 1888. After a year of study at Johns Hopkins (Ph.D., 1890), he returned to join the History Department faculty at Wisconsin, where he taught for the next 21 years.
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Behind institutions, behind constitutional forms and modifications, lie the vital forces that call these organs into life and shape them to meet changing conditions.
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Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online ... They constituted a distinct people, and may be regarded as an expansion of the social and economic life of the middle region into the back country of the South. These frontiersmen were the ancestors of Boone, Andrew Jackson, Calhoun, Clay, and Lincoln.
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And now, four centuries from the discovery of America, at the end of a hundred years of life under the Constitution, the frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history." — An excerpt from Frederick Jackson Turner's "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"
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Author Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932 ... Title The Frontier in American History ... Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- United States...
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