Ordinary People and Risk in Frederick Jackson Turner's "From the Significance of the Frontier in American History"

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Frederick Jackson Turner's "From The Significance of the Frontier in American History" was shown to be an insightful analysis of what compels ordinary people to take enormous risks--opportunity and adventure. This paper provides a personal response to Turner's essay, followed by a summary of the research in the conclusion.

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"For children born in the 20th century, the "next frontier" was represented by outer space; today, though, children born in the 21st century may never know a day when there was not a permanent human presence in space, whether in the International Space Station, future colonies on the Moon and Mars or beyond. For the American people of the 19th century, the "next frontier" was the largely unknown territory beyond the westernmost borders of the country. The importance of the opportunities represented by this "next frontier" to the development of the United States has been the subject of numerous works, including Frederick Jackson Turner's "From The Significance of the Frontier in American History.""

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