Question

What problem did Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis expose?

(1 point)
Responses

America's unique development could not continue in the absence of a frontier.

America's unique development could not continue in the absence of a frontier.

Intervention in international affairs would cause domestic interests to suffer.

Intervention in international affairs would cause domestic interests to suffer.

The U.S. Navy needed to be modernized.

The U.S. Navy needed to be modernized.

The purchase of Alaska was a bad idea.

Answer 1

America's unique development could not continue in the absence of a frontier.

Turner argued the closing of the frontier (1890) threatened the distinctive democratic and innovative character shaped by continual westward expansion.