Turner's Thesis On The American Frontier Thesis

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As turner said settlers did not care who they were running over the frontier land was free for the taking. They would take down every native tribe to gain that free land. Just like that the American democracy was born right out of the forest turner said "American democracy was born of no theorist's dream; it was not carried in the Susan Constant to Virginia, nor in the Mayflower to Plymouth. It came out of the American forest, and it gained new strength each time it touched a new frontier,"
Although, Turner could not pinpoint what the frontier was, because to him it was many things. As the census reported the frontier moved over time. In Turner’s thesis on the American significance on the American frontier. He believes that American developed
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Roosevelt had what he called the “stages of civilization”however he considered the savage as the lowest level of civilizations and it would take centuries to train them to be at the top. “they( the indians and the frontiersman) represented two stages of progress, ages apart, and it would have needed many entries to bring the lower to the level of the higher”(70) roosevelt considered the Natives savages merely because many tribes did hold up to his white civilization standards. Because they did not enjoy manly virtues such as breeding and fighting the were nearly compatible with the frontiersman. Natives clearly did not posses love or social abundance, which according to roosevelt was the two key factors in his view of civilization. According to roosevelt The frontier longed for the early settlers; they had to learn to fight like the Indians. Settlers had to live alongside Natives and absorbing everything they taught them. The Natives welcomed the settlers to their land and at the end they used them initiated wars against the Natives, they were constantly reminded of what they needed to do to maintain their superiority. Roosevelt was someone who was purely bound by the ethos of his time; the racism towards the