Essays Tagged: "american settlement"
Historian Frederick Jackson Frontier Thesis
ian Frederick Jackson Turner from Wisconsin University gave his now famous "frontier thesis" at the American Historical Association. Frederick Turner ran with the "closing of the frontier" as an oppor ... ick Turner ran with the "closing of the frontier" as an opportunity to show the influence it had on American life. Turner's essay emphasized that the promotion of individualistic democracy was a main ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents
A summary of The significance of the Frontier by Frederick Jackson Turner. Please read the original document. This is just here in case you need some reminders of what it said.
Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History*-* Turner, "The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and th ... rea of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward explain American development."-The census of 1890 said that the frontier line by 1880 was indiscernible. Tur ... d that the frontier line by 1880 was indiscernible. Turner considered that vital since the official American history up 2 that time consisted of the colonization of the West& that it was this that ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Army Captures Chief Joseph on Montana Battlefield- A newspaper article
s that his tribe suffered in their war against freedom, equality, and prosperity on the frontier of American settlement. Chief Joseph and his renegade tribe of Nez Perce Indians will be transported to ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
The Frontier of America
throughout many years. The Frederick Jackson Turner thesis on the frontier states:Up to our own day American history has been in a large degreethe history of the colonization of the Great West.The exi ... f the Great West.The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession,and the advance of American settlement westward explainAmerican development.Expansion of the United States can be trace ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
A Residential Wilderness: Life in the Wild land-Urban Interface
orthern Arizona is particularly susceptible to health problems and major wildfires. Before European-American settlement, this forest ecosystem consisted of large diameter, widely spaced trees visited ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Forestry
Restoring health to ponderosa pine ecosystems while reducing threats of wildfire within the wildland-urban interface.
and-urban interface, as well as revitalize and sustain the health of this ecosystem.Before European-American settlement, the ponderosa pine ecosystem consisted of large diameter, widely spaced trees v ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Forestry