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Frederick Jackson Turner with these exact words, "The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward explain American development." laid the basis for modern historical study of the American West and presented a essay that remains to inspire historical views to this very day. Turner believed that American democracy, nationalism, individualism, and physical and social structures can be directly linked to the frontier and its expansion. …

…the influence the Native Americans had on our thinking, and way of life. Some of his arguments are very loosely substantiated, and he often relied on popular ideas of that time, and he even romanticized the expansion of the west to appeal to his audience during that particular era. I believe he certainly downplayed that the slavery and harsh treatment of Native Americans to comfort the American national ideology of the expansion of the west.