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Frederick Jackson Turner's Thesis - -"The existence of an area of free land,
its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward
explain American development"
-Frederick Jackson Turner's 5 Main Points - -1. Stages of frontier advance
(successive movements west)
2. The frontier furnishes a field of comparative study for social advancement
(majority of the essay)
3. Influences of the frontier on the East & on the Old World
4. Missionary Activity
5. Intellectual Traits
-Frederick Jackson Turner's 5 Perceptions/Biases - -1. Indians are savages
2. Frontiers were in successive order
3. "Civilization" brought from East to West
4. Frontier consisted mainly on 2 fronts: Trading, Farming
5. Daniel Boone
-What are the 5 stages of frontier advance? - -1. Colonies (17th century)-
fault line were the Allegheny Mountains
2. Alleghenies/Appalachian Mountains (18th century)-west evolved as a
separate entity from the East
3. Mississippi (1st quarter of the 19th century)
4. Missouri to the Rocky Mountains (Middle of the 19th century)
5. Sierra-Nevada Mountains-(Middle of the 19th century)
-What are the 5 things for comparative study for social advancement? - -1.
Each frontier had to answer 4 questions
2. Each frontier molds the 2nd frontier. Each question asked then answered
will serve as a guide for the next frontier
3. Answers are also formed because of land and time
4. Tracing the social evolution through the frontiers
5. Land was everything
-What are the 4 questions each frontier had to answer? - -1. Indian question
2. Disposition of public domain (how they are going to be used)
3. The means of intercourse with older settlements
4. The extension of of political organizations, religious and education activity
(EX: Did they need town laws? Open to religion? Etc.)
, -What are the 6 stages of social evolution on the frontier? - -1.
Indian/Hunter
2. Trading/Trader
3. Ranching/Rancher
4. Mining/Miner
5. Farming/Farmer
6. Manufacturing/Manufacturer
-What are the Indian/Hunters? - -The beginning/no social life/savagery/no
civilization
-What are the 6 main points about the Traders? - -1. Disintegration of
savagery/pathfinder of civilization
2. Trade frontier was the same as the European arrival time
3. The trade society moved rapidly across the continent because of the
effects of the trade on Indian society
4. Contention was rife in the trading frontier as the French colonies focused
on trade while English on the frontier. Both tried to parlay their trade
alliances
5. Indian frontier was a consolidating agent
6. Military training ground
-What are the 4 effects on Indian society because of trade? - -1. Firearms
gave power so tribes had to trade for them to maintain status quo
2. "Every Indian trail became a fissure in Indian society"
3. Made Indians dependent on trade
4. Trails became roads and roads became railways
-How is the Indian frontier a consolidating agent? And what did the
government have to do? - -1. Indian was a common danger which demanded
and concentrated and unified action from the colonies to the states to the
country
2. Government had to:
A. Determine peace and war
B. Regulation of Indian trade
C. Purchase Indian lands
D. Create and govern new settlements as a security against the Indians
-What are the 2 main points about Ranching? - -1. Rapid expansion
2. Cattle/Swine
-Why did Ranching have rapid expansion? - -1. Products could move
themselves
2. Open grazing-nomadic (they didn't have to pay for their land they grazed
on)
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