Turner's Frontier Thesis

Prior to the Revolutionary War of 1776, the thirteen colonies of the eastern seaboard were uniformly recognized as an appendage of England. They were considered by many to be the Western segment of Great Britain. However, the colonial victory of the Revolutionary War depraved the Britons of their Western appendage. The United States had in fact begun its own establishment, developing the manifest destiny to grow Westward. The acquiring of the Louisiana Purchase from Napoleonic France …

…idea had far-reaching effects in the east, provoking the eventual abolition of slavery by Abraham Lincoln in the Emancipation Proclamation. The growth of the frontier had triggered much of American history. Its evolution attributed to America’s success and eventual status as a world power. The evolution of the frontier has developed the American character and continues to have far-reaching effects today, making it one of the most significant and influential periods in American history.