[HIST 1005X] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 43 pages long Study Guide!

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Tallest mountain in north america denali in alaska 20,000 feet. Record drop in temperature in 24 hour period: spear sh south dakota. Tallest trees in the world: red wood and sickouts in california. Extreme urban areas: salt lake city, las vegas, los angeles,. Fredrick jackson turner: the most read, talked about, studied, analyzed piece of historical literature based on a paper that he read in 1893 on the. Was meant to celebrate the 400 year anniversary of columbus landing in new world. Repudiated by historians of the west by the 1980s. historians have reinterpreted and reinvented turners ideas for a new century. Read to a nearly empty hall (everyone was at buffalo bill. Turner"s thesis: the frontier had disappeared from the usa the interaction with the frontier line that developed american institutions and. American character and culture, politics, society, what makes them. American was the continuous interaction with the frontier.