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Frederick Jackson Turner Thesis During The 1893 Chicago World Fair

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Frederick Jackson Turner first spoke to an audience about the Turner Thesis during the 1893 Chicago World Fair. This event was the central ground of American superiority. Many different business groups of diverse backgrounds met to share new products, values and aspects of their culture. Turner stated in one of his speeches at an American Historians seminar that the american frontier or the desire to settle in an area of open and free land will always remain in effect. Due to the lack of land to expand in our continent, America would look overseas. Turner would provide the United states with a new foreign policy that was implanted at the end of the 19th century, leading the United states to become involved in Asia and the pacific Islands in
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