Would you have dared to travel west in the mid 1800s? Explain how your knowledge of the Homestead Act and the Transcontinental Railroad influenced your decision.

Traveling west in the 1800s would have been fraught with danger, but depending on the area traveled to, it could have been relatively safe. The dangers would have been from wagon breakages and native attacks on lands opened up by the Homestead Act. Moving west through the railroads, though, might have been a bit safer since it would have been less likely that they would have been set upon by the natives in those areas.