Foreign Affairs: The Turner Thesis and the end of The Frontier Flashcards
What did the Turner Thesis say?
American Democracy up to 1890 had been shaped around values to do with The Frontier
What happened to the Frontier in 1890? Why?
The Frontier closed due to America becoming a nation stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What did Turner talk about in high esteem in his paper?
Free enterprise and little government intervention in the economy
What did the Turner Thesis go against?
The rising Populism movement?
Name an association which was an anti-establishment movement formed around the mid 1880s
American Economics Association
What have modern Historians said about Turners thesis?
Does not pay attention to race or gender, and what they had to sacrifice for America to no longer be an “unfinished nation”
Name someone who criticised the Turner Thesis in 1949
Ray Allen Billington
How did Billington criticise the Turner Thesis?
Decades of research have shown that lots of “Free land” in The West was just bought up by land speculators so you could not just take land easily
What do decades of research show about where people migrated to in contrast with what the Turner Thesis says?
Most immigrants wanted to move to cities as they were more likely to get help with getting on their feet by political machines’ help
How had the End of The Frontier been shown with railroads?
Transcontinental railroads had been linked across the country
How had The End of The Frontier been shown with conflicts with Native Americans by 1890?
By 1890, all Native American wars were over and they were all in Reservation Lands
