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Frederick Jackson Turner Manifest Destiny Summary

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Frederick Jackson Turner's 'frontier process' is a combination of the agrarian myth and manifest destiny. Turner outlines transforming wilderness with Lockean labor and argues that Americans have a unique character of identity. Turner believes that the wilderness masters the colonist, and also that the colonist transforms the wilderness. When the wilderness masters the colonist, he becomes the “crude backwoodsman,” and when the colonist transforms the wilderness, it creates American identity. Manifest Destiny, a term coined by John O'Sullivan in 1845, is the set of beliefs that promote expansion west (from coast to coast). Manifest Destiny is also the idea that the white anglo-saxon race is destined to bring great things west. The Agrarian
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