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What was it like moving to the west? - Coggle Diagram
What was it like moving to the west?
Traveling
The Transcontinental Railroad
Built from 1863-1869
Allowed people, mail, goods, to arrive faster.
Length was 1800 miles(2,900 kilometers)
Why would you want to travel to the west?
Gold, Oil
cheap land( large amounts of land for little money but in the Great Plains )
Dangers
American Indians
Encounters with American Indians also brought new diseases
American Indian Tribes were everywhere and most encounterings ended bad
Natural
Dangerous temperatures, sometimes too hot and cold
Lack of food, water, supplies
Dangerous altitude in mountains
Geography
The Great Plains
Stretches from Canada to Mexico
Consists of grasslands, marshes, desert
Hot summers and cold winters
The NorthWest
Consists a lot of mountain ranges such as,, the Cascade Range and the Sierra Nevada
Cold in the mountains, most of the time hot closer to the ground.
Includes Washington, Oregon, Idaho, parts of California.