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The Significance of the Frontier in American History

paper given in 1893 at World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago

Thesis: Series of frontier encounters defined American history and created the American character

Each stage of the frontier evolved Americans further from Europeans

Transcontinental Railroad

3,500 miles

Frontier Thesis supports mythologies of American character

  • rugged individualist
  • anti-authoritarian
  • innovative
  • egalitarian
  • democratic
  • successful

nostalgic

Treated the west as a place of finite expansion

Privileges East-West and not North-South

Thesis

New York

California

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