In the summer of 1893, a young historian, Frederick Jackson Turner, presented a paper that explained his views on the significance of the frontier in American history.

Choose the statement that best reflects Turner's views on the significance of the Western frontier.

A)Turner included women in his argument, rejecting the myth that the West was only for rugged, masculine individuals.

B)Turner acknowledged how the Western environment required the development of settlement patterns and social structures that fundamentally differed from those in the East.

C)Turner believed that frontier expansion paralleled the economic and social organizations that already existed in the Eastern United States.

D)Turner maintained that individual settlers and Native American tribes interacted with one another and created societies that were unique to the frontier.