“The wilderness masters the colonist. It finds him a European in dress, industries, tools, modes of travel, and thought. . . It strips off the garments of civilization and arrays him in a hunting shirt and moccasin. . . .Little by little he transforms the wilderness, but the outcome is not the old Europe. . . .The fact is, that here is a new product that is American. . . .” 

This declaration was made by which famous American historian?

    A)    Carl Degler
    B)    Charles A. Beard
    C)    Frederick Jackson Turner
    D)    Steven Ambrose
    E)    Henry Adams

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