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'Assess the impact of the development of communications on the settlement of the West'.


A vital factor in the communicational development of the West was due to the completion of the Trans-Adlantic Railroad, of which was completed in 1869. The railroad created a new leash of exsistance in American, how the once baron, urban land, now to be industrialized and inhabited by all those who seek a new life. The Railroad however spelt disaster for the Native American Indian Tribes, whose lives were to be devastated
by the Railroad's arrival, and pushed to the boundaries of extinction. The railroad provided a cheaper and faster mode of transportation for people and their belongings. No longer would seeking immigrants die through a long ardeous journey that would takes up to months to accomplish, the Trans-Adlantic Railroad was to be their saviour. Never again would the devestation of The Donner Party be felt, this, the most famous tragedy in the history of the westward migration.......

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