What Made Us Americans
As an American citizen, have you ever given any thought of the land that your standing on? Do you know as an American, you give part of yourself to this nations character? Well, you do. For several intellectual generations, a dispute has raged over the concept of the "frontier," as articulated by Fredrick Jackson Turner in 1893. He posed his belief that the American frontier was at the root of American exceptionalism. "The result is that to the frontier the American intellect owes its striking characteristics" (Turner, 549). The Frontier created a new exceptional person- an American. He promoted that the American character was shaped by the continuous confrontations Americans had with an ever changing frontier that moved civilization westward. Turner's conclusion about American characteristics is not because of the frontier, but of the American people who have accomplished many people dreams and made American what it is today. Turner's thesis is useless as a guide for the present and future, because the Frontier did not make American and it's people exceptional. The frontier can be used objectively to gain a knowledge about the history and process of western expansion. But many Americans would not admit to say that
Huggins, James S. "Native Americans." American West.4 Aug. 2002. America is full of change and the laws that have been passed shows that America is always up to the challenge to improvement and change to the nation and to provide a better quality of life to the American people. In 1808 the U.S. government passed a law forbidding the slave trade. Which stopped ship captains from hauling African tribesmen to the United States and selling them at auction. However, this law did not affect slaves already in the country and slavery continued to flourish in the south. As the United States expanded westward the slavery problem grew worse. Most of our citizens in America has learned about slavery being morally wrong, for one to own another. The Amendments that have been passed, shows a lot of American characteristics. Due to those laws, the American people among Native-Americans, Asians, Latinos, African- American in the west has the opportunity to be a citizen, and has been given equal rights just like every single white Americans. There has been a long history to what America has become and it's people has come a long way. We are not the same back in the frontier times. We have become a stronger and a united nation.
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