As an American citizen, have you ever given any thought of the land that your standing on? Do you know as an American, you give part of yourself to this nations character? Well, you do. For several intellectual generations, a dispute has raged over the concept of the “frontier,” as articulated by Fredrick Jackson Turner in 1893. He posed his belief that the American frontier was at the root of American exceptionalism. “The result is that …showed first 75 words of 1616 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1616 total…and it’s people united, and created the freedoms that American live and die by. Work Cited “Democracy.” The Groliers Encyclopedia. 4th ed. 1980. Huggins, James S. “Native Americans.” American West.4 Aug. 2002. Thornbrough, Emma L. “Black Reconstruction.” N.J. Prentice Hall, 1972 Jackson, Turner Fredrick. “The Significance of the Frontier.”