George Wilson Pierson called an idea about this place “a Pandora’s box of trouble to historians.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this place that titles a “thesis” put forth by Frederick Jackson Turner that argued American values emerged from a pioneer culture of westward expansion.
ANSWER: the American frontier [accept frontier thesis]
[10e] American frontierism evolved from this earlier two-word idea coined by John O’Sullivan that Americans had the right to spread their society across the West.
ANSWER: manifest destiny
[10h] A historian from this country formulated the Metropolitan-Hinterland Thesis as an explanation of this country’s expansion. The book In the Skin of a Lion explores the “Garrison Mentality” that dominates this country’s literature.
ANSWER: Canada (In the Skin of a Lion is by Michael Ondaatje.)
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