...The story of the Western Frontier is bursting with countless experiences of historic events that changed the American Frontier in the eighteenth century. The Western Frontier was a form of civilization rather than a piece of old dusty land. The West was a region whose social conditions result from the claim of older establishment and ideas to transforming influence of free land. Though this claim, a new environment is quickly entered, liberty of opportunity is opened, new development and institutions, and fresh ideals are brought into existence. The desert disappears, the West proper passes on to a different frontier, and a new civilization has arose. The Great West had countless opportunities and problems during the last half of the 1800s. There were mines to seized, an abundant of lands to be preempted; all the natural resources exposed to the wisest and the bravest. As the Western dusty land was being cleared to formed community for the many settlements to seek comforts in the Wild West, but some...
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...to the topic “Frontier.” To elaborate, he offered a new theory on the American idea of the frontier, stating that with the recent Western movement that attracted many citizens to the western united states the end of an era was upon us. In addition, Turner also speaks on the forces that make America great, such as development, colonization, and adaptation where in the past, present, and future the institution of America has successfully adapted to the growth of American life. To Turner, he views the frontier as more of an era or part of history where America can look back and view just how much the concept of industry and settlement has been a vital role in shaping the future of the West. As with many years prior, Turner has accepted that with great movement comes great expansion and the ability to create new...
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...In his book, Whiskey Rebels, Leland Baldwin claims, “For years the West had urged a land tax as the most equitable method of taxation.” Westerners believed that this would place the greater burden on the East, since their land was more valuable due to it development and proximity to markets, and would prompt western land speculators to sell land at reasonable rates, thereby hastening the development of the West. Instead the excise tax was established, affecting the lives of western frontier farmers that might have considered themselves beyond the administrative reach of the infant federal...
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...AMERICAN FRONTIER HISTORY Name: Course Title: Date Due: Introduction American frontier symbolizes the geology, history, fables, and social expression of natural life in the wave of American westward extension. It started with English pioneer settlements in the early seventeenth century and finished with the concession of the last terrain domains in the twentieth century. A period called the Old West, much of the time misrepresenting the sentiment and brutality of the period. By the late nineteenth century, ranchers had developed progressively reliant on huge organizations. Railroads transported their yields; banks credited that cash; producers sold them cultivate hardware, and shaky universal markets for wheat and corn decided their salary. Overproduction, in the interim, drove costs down. Agriculturists were baffled by listing costs, climbing obligation, high-investment rates, and such railroad polishes, as settled costs or separation among clients. Agriculturists probably won't felt responsible for their destinies[1]. Body Some Western tribes separated eastern tribes in "Indian Territory," from other western tribes, for example, Pueblos had lasting settlements and homesteads. They communicated with Spanish and Mexicans. Plains Indians were migrants and, some were ranchers. Warriors were not able to thrashing white pilgrims because they separated, had inward clashes, and sicknesses. The Plains people groups protected their territory and their lifestyle from...
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...In 1893, historian Fredrick Jackson Turner presented his "Frontier Thesis" at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Turner's Frontier Thesis mentioned the process of the frontier and argued about what it did. He explains the effect that the Frontier had on the development of the United States as everyone has come to learn in chronological order the different phases early America experienced. The advancement of the Frontier allowed Americans to forget old European culture and traditions to start a new American culture. This allowed citizens to start a new nation with the vast free land there was to explore. Turner lists the different phases beginning with the Indian and the hunter, the disintegration of savagery by the entrance of the trader,...
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...Essay The Frontier Myth ------------------------------------------------- “Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward explain American development. (…)American social development has been continually beginning over again on the frontier. This perennial rebirth, this fluidity of American life, this expansion westward with its new opportunities, its continuous touch with the simplicity of primitive society, furnish the forces dominating American character.” Source: http://www.learner.org/workshops/primarysources/corporations/docs/turner.html Frederick Jackson Turner The Frontier is a prominent symbol of American culture. Although it intimidated the colonists and later Americans, it did not prevent them from spreading. What drove them was “the idea of unlimited free land, a sense of unlimited opportunity and optimism”1. The idea of the frontier was significant in American culture between 1860 and 1893 because it was considered by many to be “the last frontier.” “Since the beginning of the European settlements, westward expansion had always served as an inspiration to those dreaming to start a new life.”1 With the last of the frontier being absorbed into civilization, its importance to the American people rose more than ever. Frederick Jackson Turner said that this closing of the frontier “marks...
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...America was ready for an era of growth. President T. Jefferson had a vision of growth for the country that he wanted to make possible, such as the purchase of Louisiana. With westward expansion came conflict with the Indians. These were avoidable, thus, the federal government developed strongly pro-settler Indian policies. As time went on, new territories became states, creating further political and sectional tensions as plans for the development of these new states were put forward. The Monroe Doctrine, passed by President Monroe, modified the definition of the “frontier” and the concept of “Manifest Destiny” emphasized America’s sense of its mission in the world. By 1844, the politics of frontier expansion caused a war with Mexico which helped decide a presidential election. After the civil war, the...
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...“first and mightiest nation in the world”? John Quincy Adams supported and drafted the Monroe Doctrine which called for: the opposition of any further colonization by European powers, avoidance of wars of Europe, and the avoidance of interference with newly independent Latin American states (Foner 361). It helped the United States claim “the role of the dominant power in Western Hemisphere” and eventually allowed the new nation to “assume Britain’s economic role” (Foner 361). Adams rooted for “the American System of government-sponsored economic development”, in which he hoped to expand and encourage American commerce (Foner...
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...ANTEBELLUM TEXAS. In the drama of Texas history the period of early statehood, from 1846 to 1861, appears largely as an interlude between two great adventures-the Republic of Texas and the Civil War.qqv These fifteen years did indeed lack the excitement and romance of the experiment in nationhood and the "Lost Cause" of the Confederacy. Events and developments during the period, however, were critical in shaping the Lone Star State as part of the antebellum South. By 1861 Texas was so like the other Southern states economically, socially, and politically that it joined them in secessionqv and war. Antebellum Texans cast their lot with the Old South and in the process gave their state an indelibly Southern heritage. When President Anson Jonesqv lowered the flag of the republic for the last time in February 1846, the framework for the development of Texas over the next fifteen years was already constructed. The great majority of the new state's approximately 100,000 white inhabitants were natives of the South, who, as they settled in the eastern timberlands and south central plains, had built a life as similar as possible to that experienced in their home states. Their economy, dependent on agriculture, was concentrated first on subsistence farming and herding and then on production of cotton as a cash crop. This meant the introduction of what southerners called their "Peculiar Institution"-slavery.qv In 1846 Texas had more than 30,000 black slaves and produced an even larger number...
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...final frontier 1. space: -outer space = region beyond earth 2. final: -last, ultimate, no more frontier beyond this 3. frontier: -an outer limit, especially one in which the opportunities for research and development have not been exploited 4. History of space exploration: simple overview of western countries – http://www.spacekids.co.uk/spacehistory/ includes China’s endeavors – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_space_exploration 5. Can space be considered an unexplored region if… a. man has been observing the sky since before recorded history? b. man has been thinking of exploring it since the 17th century?啟動螢幕閱讀器 共用設定 • yuanshangkwong c. the first man-made vehicle flew 100 km outside earth in 1942? d. the first human space flight in 1961? e. the Voyager I and II space craft were launched? f. man put a space station into orbit? g. even ordinary people like singer Sarah Brightman can pay to fly into space? h. we can be buried in space? 6. Consider: -What do we know about space? -What don’t we know about it? -Is it our next or our final frontier? -Is Antarctica the final frontier? Are the oceans our final frontier? Is the earth’s core our final frontier? Is time our final frontier? Is death our final frontier? I don’t think the opposition needs to say what is the final frontier, only that space isn’t. Negative side arguments 1st speaker 1) Definition on final, frontier, tangible or intangible frontier 2) Rebutt...
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...indebted to the American western – by John Sturges is a prime example of this trend. A group of American outlaws (in Kurosawa’s original version the men were rōnin, masterless samurai who were likewise treading their lives outside of the respectable social order) come to help a Mexican village that is being periodically raided by a group of bandits. The men agree to defend the village despite the poor pay and being hopelessly outnumbered, and in the end most of them will get killed when doing so. However, at least initially it is not a question of honour or “doing the right thing” for the seven gunfighters. They all have divergent, mostly selfish reasons for taking up the job, but eventually come to appreciate each other, if not the villagers they are defending. The Magnificent Seven is thus also a representative of another subtle shift in Hollywood westerns that was related to the broadening of American military involvement in the Third World in 1950s{\cf. \Slotkin 1992@485} – in addition to the traditional western fare that relied on...
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...Red Feather Journal 73 “Be Sure You're Right, Then Go Ahead”: The Davy Crockett Gun Craze by Sarah Nilsen In April 2005, sixty thousand members of the National Rifle Association gathered in Houston, Texas for their 134th Annual Meeting. The keynote speaker for the event was embattled U.S. House Majority Leader, Representative Tom De Lay. After his speech, De Lay was joined on stage by Lee Hamel dressed as Davy Crockett in full buckskin attire and a coonskin hat. Hamel presented De Lay with a handcrafted flintlock rifle that he had made for the event with his mentor, Cecil Brooks. The presentation of the reproduction rifle to De Lay is part of a long NRA tradition that began in 1955 when Walt Disney‟s Davy Crockett series first appeared on television. When Charlton Heston received his handcrafted flintlock rifle in 1989, he uttered his famous words, “From my cold dead hands.” President Ronald Reagan and Vice President Dick Cheney also joined the list of those who received facsimile Davy Crockett flintlock rifles from a man dressed in Crockett buckskin attire. This tradition is part of the NRA‟s efforts to represent the gun as a key instrument in the founding of the United States. It secured this ideological representation in part by appropriating the mythology of early American heroes like Davy Crockett. Davy Crockett became emblematic of the gun mythology of early American life. This mythology was synergized by the NRA and popularized through children‟s television...
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...Kennedy 2-14-14 The Wild West? The Old West frontier represents a land filled with opportunity, growth and new beginnings. Although new beginnings seemed like a blessing the opportunity came with harsh vices such as climate change, little resources, and little government influence. The West has been portrayed as frontier filled with violence and anarchy, but many young historians have come to challenge the glamorization of the Wild West stating that it was not as violent as the rest of the country as previously depicted. Though Robert Dykstra clarifies how low body count could skew homicide rates that illustrate high levels of violence in Dodge City, one city alone cannot discard the ferocity created between young transient males, crimes erupted between gangs, conflict and atrocities amongst Native Americans Professor David T. Courtright preserves the idea that the frontier was indeed very violent. Professor Courtright helps define the vague use of the West with the distinctions illustrated by Walter Nugent who defines two forms of frontiers. Type one was a frontier of farming and had a core of nuclear families, and the second focused on the industrial industries, such as mining, with a population almost entirely of young males. He agrees that type one frontiers had little violence due to the fact that they were family-based and elderly community. However, the counterpart type two frontiers where exponentially more volatile and what is read and seen...
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...What did the historian Frederick Jackson Turner argue about the importance of the western frontier in American history in 1893? a. The western frontier made the United States different from Europe. Correct Why did the U.S. government decide to move Indians to reservations around the mid nineteenth century? c. The government's policy of pushing the Indians further west to make way for white settlement no longer worked because there was no land left to push the Indians further west. Correct Why did the Indians sign the Treaty of Fort Laramie, which ceded some of their land to allow passage of wagon trains? d. They hoped to preserve their culture and way of life in the face of white settlement of the West. Correct What was the Comstock Load? b. The richest vein of silver ore found on the North American continent. Correct Which is the largest ethnic group in the western mining district of the U. S. in the late nineteenth century? a. Chinese Correct The Chinese men were hard workers but anti-Chinese prejudice barred them from work in which jobs? b. Mining jobs Correct What was the purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882? c. To limit and decrease the number of Chinese immigrants to the United States. Correct Which two factors helped stimulate the land rush in the trans-Mississippi West? c. The Homestead Act of 1862 and he building of the transcontinental from the Mississippi River to the California coast. Correct What did the Homestead Act of 1862...
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...emergence of China and India as economic growth engines, many are now asking whether this continent of one billion people can also achieve its own “economic miracle” . These are still early days but there is no doubting the promising signs, politically and economically. At a time of huge change, societies are showing that they can adapt, on the whole, peacefully. In the last year, Nigeria, Tunisia, Zambia and Rwanda have held elections hailed as free and fair by international observers, while a referendum created the new nation of South Sudan. Along with greater political stability, has come policy continuity and improved governance -- prerequisites for attracting the long-term investment to generate sustainable economic development. As this report shows, many global institutional investors are now seriously intending to take a significant step into Africa. This is obviously good news, as it shows that large pools of capital are available to sustain the current highsingle-digit growth needed to...
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