The Frontier in American HistoryTurner, Frederick Jackson
History
The Frontier in American History
Turner, Frederick Jackson
Frontier and pioneer life -- United States; Frontier thesis; United States -- History; United States -- Territorial expansion
Industry, captains of, and large undertakings, 258, 259, 260;
control, 318
Inland waterways, 202
Insurgent movement, 327
Intellectual life and the frontier, 37
Intercolonial congresses, 15
Interior and coast, antagonisms, 110
Internal commerce, 171, 188
Internal improvements, 27, 28, 29, 111, 170, 172, 216, 257;
after 1812 to break down barrier to West, 195;
Old West, 109
Internal trade, Old West, 108, 109
Iowa, 141, 143;
elements and growth, 229;
settlement, 137
Ipswich, 56
Irish, 350
Iron mines in Middle West, 152
Iron ore, 313
Iroquois Indians, 13, 80
Irrigation, 258, 279
Isms, 239
Izard, Ralph, 274
Jackson, Andrew, 105, 168, 173, 189, 206, 213, 216, 241, 252, 253, 268,
326;
personification of frontier traits, 252, 254
Jackson, Stonewall, 105
Jacksonian democracy, 192, 302, 342-343
James River, 84, 90;
settlement, 93
Jefferson, Thomas, 93, 105, 114, 268;
conception of democracy, 250, 251;
on England and the Mississippi, 186;
on the pioneer in Congress, 253;
on the importance of the Mississippi Valley, 188
"Jim River" Valley, 145
Johnson, R. M., 192
Johnson, Sir William, 81, 104
Justice, direct forms in the West, 212
Kansas, 142, 144, 146, 151;
Populists, 238;
settlers, 237
Kansas City, 151
Kentucky, 19, 122, 162, 167, 168, 169, 192, 225, 253;
slavery, 174
King Philip's War 40, 46, 69
Kipling, Rudyard, "Foreloper," 270;
"Son of the English," 262
Labor, combinations, 245;
composition of laboring class, 316
Labor theorists, 303, 326
Lamar, L. Q. C. (1825-1893), 25
Lancaster, Mass., 48, 57, 61
Land, 328-329;
abundance, 274;
abundance, as basis of democracy, 191, 192;
alien tenure, 110;
free, exhausted, 244-245;
free Western, 211, 259;
fundamental fact in Western society, 211;
"mongering," 61;
_see also_ Public lands
Land companies, 123, 347
Land grants, 9;
for schools and colleges, 74;
to railroads, 276
Land Ordinance of 1785, 132
Land policies, 10
Land system, "equality" principle in New England, 61, 62, 63;
Georgia, 97;
later federal, 123;
New England, 54;
New England conflicts, 75;
New York State, 80;
North Carolina, 95;
Old West, 122;
Pennsylvania, 101;
Virginia, 91;
Virginia grants to societies, 85
La Salle, 180
Laurentide glacier, 129
Law and order, 298, 344
Leadership, 213, 291, 292, 307;
educated, 286
Lease, Mary Ellen, 240
Legislation, 277, 307;
frontier and, 24;
Leicester, 59
Leigh, B. W., 115
Lewis and Clark, 13, 17
Liberty, Bacon on, 286;
for universities, 287;
individual, 213;
Western, 212
Life as a whole, 287
Lincoln, Abraham, 105, 135, 142, 174, 206, 213, 217, 225, 241, 268, 304,
356;
Douglas debates, 230;
embodiment of pioneer period, 255-256;
Ohio Valley, influence of, 175
Lincoln, C. H., 113
Litchfield, 71, 76, 124
Livingston manor, 81, 82
Locofocos, 303, 326, 348
Log cabin, 338
"Log cabin campaign," 173
London Company, 301
Loria, Achille, 11
Louisiana, 180, 208
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