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How did people move west?

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Anonymous

8y ago
Updated: 2/7/2022

The preferred method was via water, using canals and rivers. Many took the Erie Canal into Lake Erie and the Great Lakes to move west.

Wagons and carts were used, often pulled by oxen, as they could later be used to plow fields.

Later on trains transported many settlers to the west.

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Jeremy Dooley

Lvl 13
3y ago

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