Question

Which of the following best describes Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis?
A. The frontier is a sacred land that should be developed in a sustainable way.
B. The frontier is an endless, open land that is ready to be developed for profit.
C. The frontier caused Americans to settle too far apart to develop a sense of unity as a nation.
D. The frontier developed American democracy by blending wilderness and European tradition.​

Answer 1

Answer:

d or c

Explanation:

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Answer 2

D. The frontier developed American democracy

• by blending wilderness and European tradition.
• The marginal thesis or Turner thesis (also known as American frontierism), given by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893, argues that American democracy was formed by the American frontier.
• In the thesis, the American frontier established independence by freeing Americans from the European mindset and erasing old, useless customs.
• Turner's emphasis on the importance of the frontier in shaping American character influenced the interpretation found in thousands of scholarly histories.
• Frontier changed Jeffersonian democracy to Jacksonian democracy. Individualism, nurtured by the forest of the frontier, created a national spirit complementary to democracy, as the forest challenges control.