Examples of frontier in the following topics:
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- In 1890, the frontier line had broken up (census maps defined the frontier line as a line beyond which the population was under 2 persons per square mile).
- The popular culture impact of the frontier was enormous: in dime novels, Wild West shows, and, after 1910, Western movies set on the frontier.
- The idea that the frontier provided the core defining quality of the United States was elaborated by the historian Frederick Jackson Turner, who built his Frontier Thesis in 1893 around this notion.
- Nevertheless, the ethos and storyline of the "American frontier" had passed.
- The cowboy, the quintessential symbol of the American frontier, circa 1887
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- In the new frontier regions, the revivals of the Second Great Awakening took the form of vast and exhilarating camp meetings.
- In the newly settled frontier regions, the revivals of the Second Great Awakening took the form of camp meetings.
- They were an integral part of the frontier expansion of the Second Great Awakening.
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- Early frontier areas east of the Appalachian Mountains included the Connecticut River valley.
- Two events in 1763 severely tested colonial relations with American Indian tribes on the frontier: Pontiac's War and the Conestoga Massacre.
- The Warfare on the North American frontier was brutal, and the killing of prisoners, the targeting of civilians, and other atrocities were widespread.
- In the aftermath of the French and Indian War, the frontier of Pennsylvania remained unsettled.
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- The Second Great Awakening served as an organizing process that created, "a religious and educational infrastructure" across the western frontier that encompassed social networks, a religious journalism that provided mass communication, and church-related colleges.
- The Female Missionary Society and the Maternal Association, both active in Utica, New York, were highly organized and financially sophisticated women's organizations responsible for many of the evangelical converts of the New York frontier.
- Each denomination that participated in the Second Great Awakening had assets that allowed it to thrive on the frontier.
- The Methodists had an efficient organization that depended on ministers known as "circuit riders," who sought out people in remote frontier locations.
- The circuit riders came from among the common people, which helped them establish rapport with the frontier families they hoped to convert.
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- Berkeley had refused to retaliate for a series of Indian attacks on frontier settlements, so others took matters into their own hands, attacking Indians, chasing Berkeley from Jamestown, Virginia, and torching the capital.
- In 1674 a group of yeomen farmers on the Virginia frontier demanded that Native Americans living on treaty-protected lands be driven out or killed.
- Governor Berkeley still refused to act against Native Americans, however, and Bacon and his army issued the "Declaration of the People of Virginia," which accused Berkeley's administration of levying unfair taxes, appointing friends to high places, and failing to protect frontier settlements from Native American attacks.
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- Because local governments in western frontier towns were often absent or weak, westerners depended on the federal government to protect them and their rights.
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- As time went on, many new immigrants ended up on the frontiers because of the cheaper availability of land.
- The eastern and northern frontier around the initial New England settlements was mainly settled by the Yankee descendants of the original New Englanders.
- The colonial western frontier was mainly settled from about 1717 to 1775, mostly by Presbyterian settlers who were feeling hard times and persecution in northern England border lands, Scotland, and the northern portion of Ireland.
- Many initially landed in family groups in Philadelphia or Baltimore but soon migrated to the western frontier, where land was cheaper and restrictions less onerous.
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- The Second Great Awakening served as an "organizing process" that created "a religious and educational infrastructure" across the western frontier that encompassed social networks, a religious journalism that provided mass communication, and church-related colleges.
- The Female Missionary Society and the Maternal Association, both active in Utica, NY, were highly organized and financially sophisticated women's organizations responsible for many of the evangelical converts of the New York frontier.
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- Western New York still had a frontier quality at the time, making professional and established clergy scarce.
- Identify the key religious movements that emerged out of the western New York frontier
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- The American frontier gradually shifted westward starting decades after the settlement of the first immigrants on the Eastern seaboard in the seventeenth century.
- In 1800, the western frontier was delineated by the Mississippi River, which bisects the continental United States north-to-south from just west of the Great Lakes to the delta near New Orleans and was the primary the gateway for travel westward and commerce in the western territories.
- The completed Mexican cession covered over half a million square miles, increased the size of the U.S. by nearly twenty percent, and included the states-to-be of California, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming—expanding the United States frontier to its present-day continental size.