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In this section you will explore the influence of the idea of Manifest Destiny on the Boomer Movement including the official closing of the frontier in 1890.
In this section you will explore the influence of the idea of Manifest Destiny on the Boomer Movement including the official closing of the frontier in 1890.
Newspaper editor John O'Sullivan coined the term manifest destiny in 1845 to describe the essence of the American desire to move west to the Pacific Ocean.
Boomers is the name given to settlers in the Southern United States who attempted to enter the Unassigned Lands in what is now the state of Oklahoma in 1879.
In 1890 the superintendent of the U.S. Census announced that rapid western settlement meant that "there can hardly be said to be a frontier line."