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What were some of the pluses and minuses about traveling west?

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(+) more land, more freedom, more resources (-) disorganization (less rule), disease, natural disasters
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The Wild West, although it has some positive things, is a dangerous region.

Negative: It is very possible to be robbed, killed and killed, and isolated from the proper civilization. Having no laws, being free land, and lacking morality.

Positive: The head of any family declared citizen, can claim 160 acres of public land. On the sole condition that the applicant lives on the land for a period of five years while improving it by building a house and cultivating the land.

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