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

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