Changes

As settlers poured in the new areas went through the territorial stage and became states, typically dropping the legalistic practices favored by eastern upper classes, and adopting more democracy and more egalitarianism.

As settlers poured in the new areas went through the territorial stage and became states, typically dropping the legalistic practices favored by eastern upper classes, and adopting more democracy and more egalitarianism.

==Later frontier, 1830s-1890==

==Later frontier, 1830s-1890==

==Debate on Turner's interpretation==

==Debate on Turner's interpretation==

see [[Frontier Thesis]]

see [[Frontier Thesis]]