Double Edge Sword

Double Edge Sword After the civil war, we had thousands upon thousands of people looking for the "American Dream", and Horace Greeley, who stated the famous words "Go west young man", helped to start the great migration westward. There was plenty of cheap land west of the Mississippi, and gold was foud in the West, just waiting for those who could get there. The migration ultimately interfered with the Native Americans, which changed their way …

…If not for the farmers homesteading in the Great Plains, some inventions may have been invented, like the "sodbuster". The need for cattle in the east made it possible for the refrigerated cars, and the cowtowns. However, if not for the railraods would any of these things be possible? Progress is like a double edge sword, and it will cut both ways. We have to be careful not to be cut to deeply by greed.