The Frontier thesis September 25, 2006
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#2. American exceptionalism is strong belief of the first settlers that they create a new country with own unique way with democracy, indvidualism and form of admisnistration. People from Europe influenced by new conditions and understanding new roles as a pioneers, heroes, used a chance to establish a different type of government, independant from religion.
#3. The Western collonization is a determinative charcteristic of American history. The frontier process was not just a displacement or destruction of aboriginal civilization, it was a conflict of barbarian and settler and the result of events that occured on the new land, was a profound changes of both sides. A new Euro-American civilization was established on this continent. Aboriginal America in its term in territorial, demografic, social and cultural relations became a marginal. All these events became a presuppositions for “Americanization”.
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