Frederick Jackson Turner,
when he created the Frontier Thesis, thought that all the Colonists
departed from Great Britain (and other European countries) with their
old ideas, customs and ways of thinking that, when they reached the new
American continent, had to be left behind in a wild land, hard and full of new challenges. This
change of the civilization of Europe, to live in the Colonies,
according to Frederick Jackson, was what formed the American spirit, a
new way of thinking, full of courage and desire to conquer that new
land. All that the Colonists knew, changed, from
the social order (for example, they abandoned feudalism) to their forms
of governing (democracy replacing the monarchy), including religion (the
Great Awakening), separating Americans from British.
