Jackson Turner

The Jackson Turner thesis is Jackson's thoughts about the frontier the Americans created. Turner disagreed with the frontier they had placed there. While the Americans believed it gave them freedom Jackson felt as if it was a boundary that could not be passed rather than a boundary of freedom. Citizens saw this as freedom because they finally had their own land to make their own decisions on, which is freedom to them. Turner did not accept the frontier the Americans set, he fought against it.

The argument against Turner's states the general idea that the frontier land is overall extremely very useful for the people in America. Turner continually states that the land is only "free and useless" yet it is anything but that. That is untrue because people like the Natives searched for frontiers as they constantly got kicked off their lands and saw frontiers as hope and an offered up home. Mainly the argument is trying to show how that the frontier was more helpful than anything else.

In my opinion I think that Turner is wrong for thinking the frontier is a burden on America. The frontier's helped us to unite together as a country. The frontier allowed America to have the boundaries it needed to become its own nation. It was one of the first steps that they took to becoming a separate nation.