In 1893, historian Fredrick Jackson Turner presented his "Frontier Thesis" at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Turner's Frontier Thesis mentioned the process of the frontier and argued about what it did. He explains the effect that the Frontier had on the development of the United States as everyone has come to learn in chronological order the different phases early America experienced. The advancement of the Frontier allowed Americans to forget old European culture and traditions to start a new American culture. This allowed citizens to start a new nation with the vast free land there was to explore. Turner lists the different phases beginning with the Indian and the hunter, the disintegration of savagery by the entrance of the trader,