Frederick Jackson Turner Thesis

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In a society that has continually advancing technology and customs one must rapidly adapt in order to be successful. Frederick Jackson Turner expresses that theme in context of America advancing as a country in his excerpts from the “Turner Thesis (1893).” He symbolizes the Western Frontier as a basis in which the American people started to evolve. Yet he then continues on to say that the frontier is “closed”, Turner means that the frontier has since adapted and the American people have new standards to meet and something new to conquer. In order for the country to continue to thrive it must continue to make changes and advances as we once did when our country first began. As he mentions in the passage; we started with a land bridge, onto the

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