Go West, Young Woman

The gainmark brio was one of involution to thousands of Americans during the 19th century. watt, a turn up to start a new-fangled without the ferwork forcet of cities and industry that continued to rotate on the east chute of the quick growing junior country. The West was no utopia by anyones standards, however, and the impact the voyage and the new life had on women changed their way of thinking for the future. life sentence on the trail was no glorious journey blush for those with enough wealth to jaunt the path; disease was rearing and death very ordinary for anyone unlucky enough to tighten disease. The number of settlers in the West and the diversity among them would lead to contravene and hardship for decades to commence.\nThe West was not a organize women went for emancipation. The end to pull up the family grow and move westbound was ever a decision come to by men, the women accompanying the men would have to go along with the decision and learn quic kly the how to adjust to a life full of mystery and despair. amid 1840 and 1870 more than 300,000 community top doged westerly overland1 with their family and belongings in tow. many a(prenominal) of the settlers heading west were actor slaves from Africa seeking a place to escape the hatred of the eastern shores of the United States and begin anew with the world at their fingertips. umteen of these minorities found it even harder to make it in the frontier as racial discrimination was ecumenic in a land where few laws were enforced and peoples actions were determined by their will to survive. \nLife in the new lands in the west led women to begin to manage tasks they were not accustomed to do in their previous homes. A woman could not head into town to purchase supplies from the general store; in the West, a woman had to provide for her family by preparing meals, clothing, and anything else she needed to by employ the land around her. This new reality is a mirror of the experiences that many women lived in the earl...