Misc.
What president founded the Freedman's bureau?
Lincoln
Johnson’s “War on Poverty” represented his attempt to bring the spirit of the frontier inward by opening this new kind of American frontier.
What is the domestic frontier?
Grandin points out that this U.S. president’s border-wall rhetoric helped make the frontier myth’s end visible.
Who is Donald Trump?
This physical structure is argued by Grandin to symbolize the end of the frontier myth in America.
What is the border wall?
The chapter argues that the idea of endless land and opportunity was replaced by the sense of this.
What is scarcity or limited resources?
During Johnson’s presidency, this foreign conflict exposed the limits of America’s expansionist ideals and showed that the frontier myth could no longer provide unity.
What is the Vietnam War?
Chapter 6 argues that the frontier’s closure forced the U.S. to abandon expansion and instead pursue this kind of boundary.
What is the border or defensive boundary?
According to Grandin, once the geographic frontier closed, this type of frontier emerged.
What is the “new American frontier” of walls and borders?
What are three(or more) of the four things Montesquieu belives a government owes it's citizens.
"a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
Grandin describes Johnson’s Great Society as an effort to transform the myth of limitless expansion into this moral and political mission.
What is social reform or moral uplift at home?
The frontier myth once implied that Americans could escape domestic problems by moving outward; now that route is gone, so Grandin argues the myth ends and this begins.
What is containment or fortification?
Grandin contends that frontier-expansion once served as a release valve for this kind of domestic pressure.
What is social or economic unrest?
He uses the shift from westward expansion to border fortification as evidence of this broader ideological change.
What is the transformation of the frontier myth?
Despite Johnson’s optimism, Grandin argues that the violence and divisions of the late 1960s proved that this old American “safety valve” for internal tension no longer existed.
What is the open frontier?
Grandin suggests that the myth of the frontier had always relied on this kind of underlying assumption about territory.
What is that land is unlimited or there is always more territory to claim?
In Chapter 6, Grandin links border militarization to this historical U.S. theme.
What is the myth of the frontier?
Grandin draws on historian Frederick Jackson Turner’s “frontier thesis” to argue that the wall represents not just a policy change but this deeper psychological or cultural shift in America’s self-understanding.
What is the internalization of the frontier—the turn from outward expansion to inward fear and self-containment?
Johnson’s belief that America could eliminate poverty and spread prosperity everywhere reflected his deep faith in this enduring national idea.
What is the myth of the frontier or American progress?
In Chapter 6, Grandin connects the end of the frontier myth to the rise of this kind of economic-political logic.
What is neoliberalism or limited prosperity driven by scarcity?
Grandin shows that the border has become a site of this kind of violence, tied to the frontier legacy.
What is racialized and/or state-sanctioned violence?