The Issues Involved in the End of the American Frontier

The American Frontier was considered one of the last great opportunities of the United States. Its whole existence made America what America was intended to be, a land to start over, a new ground which for many would result in the eventual expansion and diminishing of the frontier. Many arguments arouse around the 1890's to whether this great opportunity was coming to a close. These arguments brought about a lot of controversy for the time and even for the present day. In "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" written in 1893 by Frederick Jackson Turner several points are called upon to show the existence of this frontier was discontinued.
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