History can be talked about and argued about around many different views and angles. The view in this paper, we’ll discuss the, “East to West”, or westward movement.

Frederick Jackson Turner had an argument that can be used to explain the developments in American history through the close of the nineteenth century. Turner argued that events in American history could be categorized in four periods: a period of Native American Indian dominance, a period of exploration, a period of settlement, and a period of big business.

The period of Native American Indian dominance can be described by their knowledge of how to grow crops and to live in an environment of wilderness so well. They did it so well that the whites wanted to learn from them and eventually trade with them. In his book, “The Middle Ground”, Richard White talks about the equal dependency in trade between the whites and Indians. The Indians were trying to work with white settlers in peace. However, come to find out that the whites came in overwhelming numbers and even

tually wiped out N. A. Indian dominance because of the capitalist system from the big business men taking up the land. Furthermore, even though the Indians may be dominant over crops, after the Revolutionary War, the whites no longer needed the Indians because they’ve gained all the necessary knowledge required to grow a successful crop. During this time of trade with the whites, a historian, “Ray Allen Billington”, explains that Indians died out because of diseases from the whites such as Smallpox, Syphilis, etc…

The period of settlement can be discussed by first mentioning the pilgrims. On their way to Virginia to settle they were blown off course and landed on Plymouth. This brings up the Mayflower Compact, which was an agreement that the people would obey the decisions of the majority. This was the Beginning of American democracy. The Northwest Ordinance made settlement possible further west. It protected civil liberties, made provision for public education, and prohibited slavery within the region. After the Louisiana Purchase settlers began settling in the southern

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