In "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," Frederick

question 72

Multiple Choice

In "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," Frederick Jackson Turner claimed

• A)the frontier had made Americans a distinctive people.
• B)the United States should expand its northern and southern borders into Canada and Mexico to create new frontier land.
• C)the western wars between whites and Indians were a national disgrace.
• D)most of the frontier land was of little practical use for Americans.
• E)the frontier had repressed individualism,nationalism,and democracy in America.

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