In the past, there were two major theories of the understanding, the economic interpretation of politics associated with Charles A. Beard, and the frontier interpretation of American development with Frederick Jackson Turner. Charles A. Beard, was much against Turners vision, yet he can be proven incorrect with Turners theory. Turner, like all easterners, was an evolutionist concerned with political forms; however, in contrast to other academic scholars, who laid reliance on racial heredity and self-determined growth, Turner looked for the influence of environment. The Adams school particularly, or the scholars, “were paying far too much attention to the European ‘germs’ of American institutions, and far too little to the American soil in which these ‘germs’ had grown,” according to Turner. He wanted to challenge the academic minds to new possibilities with his thesis. Turner’s thesis clearly states, “The existence of an area of free land; its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward explain American development”. One can easily agree with this statement as

A feminist who agreed strongly, and speaks highly of Americas development, was Harriet Martineau; who once said, “ I regard the American people as a great embryo poet, now moody, now wild, but bringing out results of absolute good sense; restless and wayward in action, but with deep peace at his heart; exulting that he has caught the true aspect of things past, and the depth of futurity which lies before him, wherein to create something so magnificent as the world has scarcely begun to dream of”. This statement truly magnifies the development in the United States during the period of the frontier. America’s history was truly moulded with the happenings and development of the frontier.

Some people felt that the frontier was overemphasized in the development of the United States. However, there is the obvious fact regarding the man of the Western Waters, that he, the man, had placed himself under influences destructive to many of the gains of civilization, there was room for growth. One of the first rebuttals to Turner thesis occurred after Turners statement, “The truly American part of our history,” this referring to the fronti

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