Saturday, January 25, 2014
The West comments
Geography- There was copper discovered in Arizona, which caused people to move out west. I found it interesting that in 1890, the census indicated the western frontier as "closed", and in 1882 the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed which barred the immigration of Chinese laborers. There were very strong feelings against immigration, and even against the Indians, who were being pushed off of their land in the west to make room for American settlers.
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Thank you. The census closed the frontier in 1890 and Frederick Jackson Turner, an American historian who, wrongly it turns out, claimed that American democracy originated on the Western frontier, proclaimed the end of the frontier and the end of American democracy around the same time.
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