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Moving West Then and Now

Moving West Then and Now 

Due to the homestead act, this country was hit with a wave of immigrants in search of new land and opportunity. Not only was it immigrants but African Americans escaping the cruel south. Although the idea of new opportunity and adventure sounds fun and all, it's not at all what it seems to be.
Dating all the way back to the 1800s, the technology was not amazing resulting too the best form of transporting people; the wagon. Before the invention of the transcontinental railway, the wagon was the main source of transportation that or your legs. These wagons were not useful for enduring harsh weather and were not nearly as fast enough as the automobiles we have today. Some homesteaders had land disputes with others trying to make a living and also with Native Americans. Not only was the travel aspect hard for this opportunist but the mental aspect was difficult too. Keeping up with acres of land is hard enough but doing it by yourself with no company is as depressing as it gets. The key factors of why moving west back then were more difficult now is because of the transportation, difficult land work, and some cases of loneliness when working in the middle of nowhere.

Nowadays, moving west is a breeze with approximately 7,000 licensed active movers in the U.S.A what took pioneers months to do now only takes a couple of days. Also, the west has made so much progress in communities and industry. A person today has so much more opportunities to succeed in a great community he or she will be happy in. Concluding that the pioneers had it a lot tougher because of the lack of resources and technology they had back then. But their will and unstoppable drive for happiness was the building block for our country's happiness.  

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