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that everything is more exciting in the city and that there are schools that I could attend. My
parents want me to move with them to the city, but I am a little afraid of cities. There is crime
crowds, and pollution, but I hope my parents can make a better life for themselves there.
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Letter - Where Should I Move?
Directions: As you read this fictional letter, pay attention to good reasons to move west and
good reasons to move to a city. Also pay attention to reasons NOT to move west and NOT to
move to a city
Tuk What advice would you give to John? Where should he move?
My name is John. I am a teenager and live on my family's dairy farm in Massachusetts. Now,
however, it is becoming more and more difficult to make a living on this farm. One reason is that
agriculture is becoming more mechanized. Technology has allowed farms to produce more crops
(and milk) with less farm workers. It is possible for many dairy farms in my area to run the entire
operation with only six workers and that's with a farm with 200 cows.
Reasons to Move West
Reasons to move to a City
There is a low that was just passed called the Homestead Act. This law promised 260 acres of
Land to settlers if they lived there for five years and improved it in some way. The cost was only
518.00. My sister, who is single, has decided she will claim a homestead because this law allowed
unmarried women to claim land, tool we hear that some state the west, trying to get more
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move there are still in women the right to vote
I don't know if i want to continue to farm, though. There is a new gold rush - the Klondike Gold
Rush - in Alaska, i can get enough money to get to the city of Skagway, Alaska, I can journey
to the gold fields and perhaps make my fortune there. I know that I bryts bring a year's worth
of supplies with me, so I will stop in Seattle, Washington first and purchase all my supplies from
there. Seattle has really grown because of this gold rush
of course, none of this would be possible if there weren't the railroads. Now that the
transcontinental railroad is complete, i can get to the west in only four days. Railroads are quick
and cheap
My parents are thinking of moving too, but to city. They want to move to Chicago. They have
received letters from their sisters and brothers in other big cities, like New York and Pittsburgh
saying that there is stable work in factories. People style a certain wage each week and
don't have to worry about weather, sickness, and other problema destroying their forms. The
letters say that there are lots of factory jobs and that it is easy to find places to live. They say