During the 1800s, thousands of settlers traveled west in search of new land and opportunities. Many families traveled in wagons. They followed overland trails across the continent. These trails were often dangerous and difficult to travel on. For settlers to reach the California coast they had to cross the Rocky Mountain chain.The settlers had to cross the Rocky Mountains to reach Oregon's Pacific Coast.
rich soil for agriculture.
The challenges humans faced is the climate weather and temperature. Which means they had to learn to adapt and have survival skills. Because of these factors, they have the issues of finding a settlement and growing crops and domesticating the animals. Technically, the transition between the Paleolithic and Neolithic is the turning point for the nomads. Where people began to have a settlements, easier growing foods besides hunting and gathering, have their own domestic animals to help them do the fields and etc. Which domesticating an animal led to selective breeding.
