In American history the frontier is the process of settlement of
new lands in the West, plus the geographical zone of settlement,
together with the impact on the frontiersmen and the nation at
large. As pioneers moved west they changed their customs,
behavior and values and became more "American"; Frederick
Jackson Turner called this "the significance of the frontier,"
Turner argued in 1893, one change was that unlimited free land
in the zone was available and thus offered the psychological
sense of unlimited opportunity, which in turn had many
consequences, such as optimism, future orientation, shedding of
restraints due to land scarcity, and wastefulness of natural
resources. See Frontier Thesis Throughout American history, the
expansion of settlement was largely from the east to the west,
and thus the frontier is often identified with "the west." In
New England, it moved north, so that Maine and Vermont had
frontier characteristics/ See also: Colonial America Before
1700, the frontier was any part of the f