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It was extramly dangerous to travel by wagon, there was the threat of bandits, native american tribes, and Buffalo, plus added diseases and weather conditions, when the train was invented and used for civilian use after the American civil war, railways were built from the east and mid-west to the west, they were deamed more safe and it was a faster way to travel
It was "Karl Marx" who envisioned a classless society, with common people in charge of their destiny, since this was the basis of communism, which came to fruition most famously in the Soviet Union.