The Significance Of The American Frontier & The 20th Century Will Be American

Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance Of The American Frontier,” 1893
1. the conditions of frontier life shaped intellectual life in America

Traits
1. coarseness
2. strength
3. acuteness
4. inquisitiveness
5. practical
6. inventive
7. quick to find expedients
8. a masterful grasp of material things
9. lacking in the artistic
10. powerful to effect great ends
11. restless, nervous energy
12. dominant individualism-for good & evil. 
13. buoyancy
14. exuberance
15. frontier: new opportunities, not caught up in a stubborn way of thinking, 
16. freshness
17. confidence
18. new institutions & activities will be developed 

Senator Albert Beveridge (R-IN), “The Twentieth Century Will Be American,” January 1, 1900. 

1. America was conquering new lands
2. new lands will create new markets
3. American culture is less debased, nobler, virile
4. other cultures are debased, decaying
5. Americans are God’s favored people
6. Americans are to be the master organizers of the world 
7. Americans are to make order out of chaos in the world