History A-Level
Frontier
What Frontier means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Frontier
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Argued by Frederick Jackson Turner to have shaped American democratic individualism, its closure shattering the myth of limitless western expansion.
Topics that use Frontier
- 1K The making of a Superpower: USA, 1865–1975 – The Era of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1890 (AQA A-Level)
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