Answer to Question #300978 in History for ally

Question

For the decades after the Civil War and into the early 20^th century, Texas had essentially two frontiers to contend with. What and where were the two frontiers and what set of problems did each present to Texas? Which frontier would you have lived in if you had to choose one? Why the one you chose? Write two paragraphs and use the readings in Chap. 10 of the Haynes and Wintz book to support your ideas.    

Answer 1

The Texas Frontier in 1850 was guarded by a line of army forts ranging from Fort Worth to Fort Duncan near Eagle Pass. With the end of the Mexican War, settlers had begun pushing toward the Texas interior, and troops became available to furnish new towns with some measure of protection from raiding bands of Indians. During World War II there were two major fronts the war. The European war front where allied forces fought Germany and where the holocaust took place and the Asia-pacific war front. This is where America got involved in WWII after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. A shortage of supplies was another problem for the U.S. troops. Sometimes the Army had to call off its plans to fight Native Americans because it did not have enough food or horses. Also, army officers knew how to fight in traditional wars, but they knew little about frontier warfare.

I would choose the American frontier. This is because the American frontier in United States history had the advancing border that marked those lands that had been settled by Europeans. It was also characterized by the westward movement of European settlers from their original settlements on the Atlantic coast. In the 19th century, it was statistically classified as an area having no fewer than two but no more than six European inhabitants per square mile. The United States Census Bureau defined areas with lower population densities as “unsettled” and on this basis marked the frontier line on a series of maps for each decade.