The Frontier in American HistoryTurner, Frederick Jackson
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The Frontier in American History
Turner, Frederick Jackson
Frontier and pioneer life -- United States; Frontier thesis; United States -- History; United States -- Territorial expansion
Monroe, James, 150
Monroe Doctrine, 296;
germ, 168
Monticello, 93
Moravians, 95, 102
Morgan, J. P., 318
Mormons, 263
Morris, Gouverneur, 207
Nashaway, 57
National problem, 293
Nationalism, 29;
evils of, 157;
Middle West and, 142
Nationalities, mixture, 27;
replacement in Wisconsin, 235
Naturalization, 110
Nebraska, 144, 145, 220;
settlers, 237
Negro, 295
New England, 27, 301;
back lands, 75;
coast vs. interior, 111;
colonies from, 124;
culmination of frontier movement, 78;
early official frontier line, 43;
economic life, 78;
effect on the West, 36;
foreign element, 294;
frontier protection, 46-47;
frontier types, 43-44;
Greater New England, 66, 70;
ideas, and Middle West, 348;
Indian wars, 69;
land system, 54;
Middle West and, 347;
Ohio settlement and, 223;
Old West and, 68;
Old West and interior New England, 70;
pioneer type, 239;
streams of settlement from, 215;
two New Englands of the formative period of the Old West, 78-79
New Englanders in the Middle West, 137;
in Wisconsin and the lake region, 228;
three movements of advance from the coast, 136;
Westernized, 215, 216
New Glarus, 236
New Hampshire, 69, 72, 77, 111
New Hampshire grants, 77
New Northwest, 222
New Orleans, 136, 137, 167, 187, 188, 189, 217, 295
New South, 218;
Old West and, 100
New West, 257
New York City, 136, 195, 318
New York State, early frontier, 43;
lack of expansive power, 80;
land system, 80;
settlement from New England, 83;
western, 230
Newspapers of the Middle West, 353
Nitrates, 279
Norfolk, 195
North Carolina, 87, 106;
coast vs. upland, 116;
in Indiana Settlement, 224;
public lands, 95;
settlement, 94, 95;
slavery, 122;
taxation, 118, 119
North Central States, 126;
region as a whole, 341
North Dakota, development, 237
Northampton, 63
Northfield, 53
Northwest, democracy, 356;
Old and New, 222;
_see also_ Old Northwest
Northwest Territory, 222
Northwestern boundary, 324
Norton, C. E., 208-209
Norwegians, 232
Nullification, 117, 254
Ohio, diversity of interests, 231-232;
elements of settlement, 223;
history, 133-134;
New England element, 223;
Southern contribution to settlement, 223
Ohio Company, 123, 133, 141, 182, 223
Ohio River, 5, 161
Ohio Valley, 104;
as a highway, 162;
economic legislation and, 170;
effects on national expansion, 166;
in American history, 157;
influence on Lincoln, 175;
part in making of the nation, 160;
physiography, 160-161;
relation to the South, 174;
religious spirit, 164, 165;
stock and settlement, 164
Oil wells, 297
Oklahoma, 278, 297
Old National road, 136
Old Northwest, 131, 132, 136, 221;
as a whole, 241-242;
defined, 218;
elements of settlement, 222;
political position, 236;
social origin, 222-223;
Southern element in settlement, 223, 225-226;
turning point of control, 229
"Old South," 166
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