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End of Revolutionary War
By coming out victorious in the American Revolutionary War, the newly designated United States of America earn full rights to settle and establish the first of the land that could now be considered the American Frontier. -
Louisiana Purchase
A monumental land acquisition by the U.S, the Louisiana Purchase suddenly swelled the size of the frontier, drawing even more movement to the west. -
View of St. Louis
The latest predicted date that Leon Pomerede's "View of St. Louis" was painted. -
Home by the Lake
The year that Frederic Edwin Church released his "Home by the Lake" painting. -
The Backwoods of America
Release year of "The Backwoods of America," painted by Jasper Francis Cropsey. -
Closing of the American Frontier Line
Due to the astonishingly rapid and ongoing settlement of the western coast of America, the Superintendent of the U.S. Census Bureau declared that it would be difficult to make an argument for the continued existance of a frontier line. -
Turner's Frontier Thesis
Three years after the closing of the frontier had been declared by the U.S. Census, Frederick Jackson Turner cited in his moving thesis "The Frontier Thesis" that the expansion that occured during the frontier area was the key factor in what defined modern Americans.
