In "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," Frederick Jackson Turner claimed
A)the frontier had made Americans a distinctive people.
B)the United States should expand its northern and southern borders into Canada and Mexico to create new frontier land.
C)the western wars between whites and Indians were a national disgrace.
D)most of the frontier land was of little practical use for Americans.
E)the frontier had repressed individualism,nationalism,and democracy in America.

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In "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," Frederick Jackson Turner argued that the existence of the frontier had created a uniquely American culture that was shaped by the conditions of life on the frontier. He claimed that the frontier had encouraged democracy, individualism, and a sense of self-reliance and resourcefulness that set Americans apart from Europeans and other peoples. This argument was influential in shaping American attitudes toward expansion and nationalism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.