History: Discuss and evaluate this statement.

History: Discuss and evaluate this statement.

Based off this textbook: John Mack Faragher, et al.Out of Many:A History of the American People, Volume A

Question: While historians long argued that the abundance of free land and the egalitarian nature of the frontier encouraged the development of democratic institutions, evidence to the contrary exists. Discuss and evaluate this statement. Include in your discussion the colonial need for land and labor and how that need was met.

Please answer with 300-600 word range.