FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER QUESTIONS FOR E222 AMERICAN LITERATURE
CSU FULLERTON, FALL 2014

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1. In “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” what does Turner suggest has long been the practical and symbolic value of “the Frontier” for Americans? What transformation is taking place by the 1890s (the time of Turner’s address) in the concept of the Frontier, and how, according to him, might that change turn out to be important to the American experience?