What hardships did pioneers face?
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Where do I begin!?  \nDepending on the time of year they went, they either had to face freezing temps, frost bite, crossing ice cold rivers on foot, pneumonia, hypothermia, winter was the worst.  Many people died from exposure.  Spring was the best time for them to start their journey, but still they had to face the heat, mosquitoes, swamps, indians... but summer was much better than winter.\nFood was hard to come by, they had to bring most of their food with them, which was pretty much flour, sugar, sometimes they brought their own chickens for eggs, and cows for milk.  They hunted the wildlife too.\nThey had problems with wagons breaking down, cattle and oxen getting sick and dying.  They mostly walked and saved the wagons for carrying supplies and sick people.  They had sore feet and lots of health problems because they had to walk so long and far each day.  They crossed rugged territory and cut new paths.  \nThe pioneers were brave and courageous, they sacrificed their lives, their families, their homes, their way of life, for something that they fiercly believed in... and I will be forever grateful for their lives and examples.  Those men, women, and children were TRUE HEROES!!
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Most of human history suffered the same, until the enlightenment. Steady growth in freedom from that point on till the peak in capitalism ~100 years ago is the foundation of healthy economies. The ideas of the enlightenment are lost on the countries above (and fading here too).
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A lot of the pro illegal arguments are about how hard everything is for the illegals. The American settlers probably didn't complain about this being hard. I'm disabled and have trouble doing stuff, but I at least try to do stuff instead of wimping out and taking the easy way like these illegals do.
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Too much...  Flooding, traffic accidents.\nToo little...  Drought, water rationing.
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Big steps forward in knowledge, understanding and the advance of humanity requires great risks to be taken.\n\nWould the pilgrim fathers have set out in a rickety little wooden ship if the same question was asked?\n\nWhat about the dangers of electricity, flying, medical testing? The list is endless and lots of people have died or been seriously injured making the discoveries that have improved all our lives so much.
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Extreme poverty, no antibiotics, lots of violence, the feudal system, no democracy, much shorter life span, poorer and less food, no glasses for poor vision, people died from toothache, poor clothing especially in bad weather, living in fear, extreme superstition, violent punishments for petty crime, workhouses for children, many women died in childbirth, no birth control, etc.  I hope this helps.
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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, agricultural growth in the region was slow compared to the rates achieved in the past thirty years. Agricultural development in the recent past has been characterized by an extraordinary diversity both within and between countries. Many largely traditional farming systems that were sustainable with a low density of population are becoming increasingly strained by, and vulnerable to, the pressure of rising population. Spectacular environmental damage exemplifies the consequences of this pressure as land-hungry cultivators push into the tropical forests and up the hillsides. A growing prosperity among some groups contrasts with the deepening poverty among others less fortunate.
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When the pioneers decided the time of year to leave on their journey, they needed to consider several things.  They had to plan ahead. Some of the things they had to consider were possible bad weather along the trail, food for their livestock, and a supply of water.  \n\n \n\nOn many days the caravan would only travel ten to fifteen miles.  On rainy and muddy days they might only travel one mile!  It would take them five to seven days just to travel the distance we can drive a car in a single hour. \n\nThe people would have to get up very early each morning in order to prepare for their daily travels.  It was usually dark on these mornings.  They would have to start the fire, prepare breakfast, gather the livestock, reload the wagon, and hitch the oxen or mules before getting started. \n\n \n\nEach morning the pioneers would get up before daylight and gather their livestock and cook breakfast.  Many times they would go ahead and prepare lunch as well.  After breakfast around 7:00 a.m. they hitched up the oxen and started down the trail.  Since the wagon was so bumpy the pioneers who were not driving the wagon would walk behind or next to it much of the time. They would stop at lunchtime and rest for an hour or two.  After a rest period they would travel down the trail until about four or five p.m.  At night they would circle the wagons for protection.  The women would fix the dinner and the men would prepare the livestock for the night.  After supper they would gather around the campfires and sing songs, dance, tell stories and visit.  Sometimes they slept inside the wagon but they also slept under the wagon, in a tent, and sometimes under the stars. \n  \n\n  \n\nChildren had lots of chores that included milking their cows, fetching water from a stream or a river that was nearby, helping their parents cook food, washing dishes, collecting buffalo chips or wood for the fire, shaking out dusty blankets and quilts, and hanging beef jerky to dry in the sun.
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because they can't adapt to their environment. ones who can't adapt, can't get food or settlement. that's why they became extinct..
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when my grandparents came to this county they could not, by law,speak German outside there own home or they were in trouble ,they had to become American citizens or get deported, had to learn English,and had to have a job. They worked hard for 50cents a day. No food stamps, no help, and no free ride.When today's people coming here do the same I'll say they can stay,the Plains Indian part of me ,says i want every one to go back where they came from.Because they sure haven't improved anything being here.
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issues that affect aboriginal peoples
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pros - life experience\n\ncons - difficulty in getting job
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The natives didn't necessarily have social classes.  There was a division of labor, and people did what they were good at or born to do, but everyone contributed to the society.  There were priests or shamans or medicine men, a number of chiefs-war chiefs as one example, warriors, hunters, and the women.  No one was really higher than anyone else.
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When the US government opened the west for colonization around the second half of the 19th century, people went there because America offered what no other nation could at the time. It accepted immigrants who wished for a better life. Also, if you could make it to the territories out west, filed your claim (on a given piece of land), survive there farming for five years, then it was yours. It was like making a bet with the American Government that you could.  What better enticement could there be?\n\nAlso overpopulation in the East and an entire country all the way to the west coast where there was nothing except maybe native american indian tribes and virgin country was too much to resist. Hundreds upon hundreds flocked west to see their dream come true. Of course it was not easy, the harsh weather, hostile tribes and human greed made it hard for many families who finally relinquished their claims and went back east.\n\nThe American Government did not handle the situation with the Native Americans very well. The Native Americans were lied to. While the Government kept telling them that their lands would not be taken, they would then tell the Pioneers that it was ok to do it. As a result there were clashes between the Native Americans and the Pioneers (prejudice against the indians got to the point that they coined a saying: the only good indian is a dead indian) and finally the Government justified sending troops to control the Native Americans, who were massacred at will, their lands taken away, entire tribes of survivors sent to the worst possible places where reservations were set up, their children forced to attend schools and indoctrinated to adapt as soon as possible to the American ideal life, denying them their cultural heritage, and a lot of other terrible mistakes no one likes to talk about, mistakes that continued all the way to the first half of the 20th century. The western genre deals a lot with that era, and movies about it were still going strong all the way to the 1950's. \n\n Hope this answers your question.
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a co-worker of mine in Ontario had to wait 7 months until his wife finally joined him here from China.  I guess it was worth the wait but man was it tough on them in the meantime!!\n\nHang in there!
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drought, isolation, hostile indians, criminals, to name a few
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Read "The Mysterious Stranger" by Mark Twain. It has the answer.