For this assignment, you will write at least 200 words describing the positive and negative effects of settling the West, using
evidence to support your reasoning. Your response should also include a description of the effects of railroads on the physical environment. Someone help meeeeeeeeeeee! My assignment is overdue!!!!!!!!!
Positive effect is the usage of more land whereas the negative effect is the control problem of that land.
Effects of settling the west
The positive effect of settling the west is that it provides America more land to use and its resources for the betterment of the economy while on the other hand, the negative effect of setting the west is that it was more land to control for the United States as well as the United States had to fight 2 wars to gain the territory.
Effects of railroads on the physical environment
The main disturbances caused by railways are air, soil and water pollution and noise which adversely affect species and organisms present in that environment.
I don't know about training. But General John J Pershing would become the lead General of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I. He was stationed at the border of Mexico (before the U.S. joined the war) to help dissolve issues with Poncho Villa. This experience would help when the United States would enter the war.
