However, it is important to understand the ripple effect that Turner's thesis has had on the world. The future president had already written three of the fourteen volumes of Winning the West before reading the pamphlet. The concern I see affecting our society is that Turner managed, through one speech, to not influence but encourage Roosevelt to continue to write more about Winning the Race to the West. The impact of Turner's ideas and Roosevelt's rise to the presidency are a great indication of how significant the thesis was across “frontiers” that included the Chinese Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine-American War. During both of these clashes, American soldiers were accused and found guilty of brutally beating, killing, and even raping women and men in both regions. “Manifest Destiny” tolerance was still alive and well as Roosevelt, then governor of the Philippines, would soon become president of the United States in 1904. While this was a negative impact, it is still significant to our history as well.