Question

Explain the meanings of the “frontier” in encounters between Europeans and Native Americans from the colonial era to the earliest years of the United States

Answer 1

Frontier in simple words means the part of a country that borders another country; boundary; border. the land or territory that forms the furthest extent of a country's settled or inhabited regions.

Frontier, in United States history,is the advancing border that marked those lands that had been settled by Europeans. It is characterized by the westward movement of European settlers from the original Atlantic coast (17th century) to the Far West (19th century). The frontier is the outer edge of the wave—the meeting point between savagery and civilization. Our early history is the study of European germs developing in an American environment. Europeans carried a hidden enemy to the Americans: new diseases. Native peoples of America had no immunity to the diseases that European explorers and colonists brought with them. Diseases such as smallpox, influenza, measles, and even chicken pox proved deadly to American Indians.

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