American Settlement Quotes by Frederick Jackson Turner

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Frederick Jackson Turner has 8 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp…
• So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.
• Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West.…
• The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.
• America has been another name for opportunity.
• Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference…
• The West is now closed.
• The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.

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