How did frontier life encourage self-reliance

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The American Frontier Assignment Assignment: Please answer the following questions in a short statement each. No answer should take longer than 3 to 4 sentences. All answers can be found in your text.

1. What do Americans mean by "the frontier"?

2. Why view the frontier settler as a model of the free indivrdual?

3. What was the impact of frontier settlement on Native Americans?

4. How did frontier life encourage self-reliance?

5. Where does the tradition of owning guns originate?

6. How did frontier life encourage a spirit of inventiveness?

7. What is the "can-do" spirit?

8. How did the frontier encourage equality of opportunity?

9. What does the following statement mean? "What's above the ground is more important than what's below the ground"?

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