American frontier - Expansion, Settlement, Westward Movement

By A Mystery Man Writer

American frontier - Expansion, Settlement, Westward Movement: The third and last frontier advance carried migrants across the remaining reaches of the continent to the Pacific Ocean and then turned back to fill in the areas passed over in the first forward drive. It began around 1840 and lasted to 1890 and beyond, when the federal census announced the end of the frontier era. This is usually referred to as the trans-Mississippi frontier. The region faced by the American pioneers in this last advance was different in character from anything that they had met before, and the frontiers that emerged were more varied and more colourful than any
American frontier, in United States history, the advancing border that marked those lands that had been settled by Europeans. It is characterized by the westward movement of European settlers from their original settlements on the Atlantic coast in the early 17th century to the Far West in the late 19th century.