Benjamin Frank
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« on: August 02, 2022, 07:17:01 AM » |
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« edited: August 02, 2022, 07:22:06 AM by Benjamin Frank »
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In 1893 at the Chicago Exposition, History professor/public intellectual Frederick Jackson Turner presented his 'Frontier Thesis' aka the ending of the 'The Safety Valve Theory' which argued that disputes between Americans and unemployment were settled by Americans moving west.
With the 'frontier' settled by the late 1890s, Turner argued this 'safety valve' had been shut off.
Teddy Roosevelt seized upon the public sentiment of this belief by referring to himself as 'the first modern President' and argued that government, especially the President, now needed to get more involved in disputes and things like busting trusts now that Americans could no longer escape/start over simply by going West.
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