The Centralists were generally conservative and favoured a strong central government in the viceregal tradition, a paid national army, and Roman Catholicism as the exclusive religion. The Federalists favoured limited central government, local militia, and nearly autonomous states; they tended to be anticlerical and opposed the continuance of colonial fueros, which gave special status to ecclesiastics and the military and exempted them from various civil obligations.
The trails and the conditions were very rough, and they struggled to traverse across these trails. Also, the weather was very bad and many of the settlers got sick and died from disease along the way
