Computers help us in so many ways today. I highly doubt anyone can despute about this. Finding information, playing games, to see what the wheater is like, or who one the Super Bowl. So this is only one fraction of what is in store for America.
That map project was fun. For Westward Migration, we colored a map. The fun part was that we got to tear the map apart.
To be honest I don't know, but for whatever the reasoning- probably got made at someone for killing one of their allies.
The real sucky part of entering the panama canal was how big the ships had to be. Come all the way to this canal, and you find out your ship is to big, ouch! There goes your raise for your job in the bottom of the sea.
We would not take it slowly for many reasons. The biggest one being that a more dominant country or nation, would come and take it over. Yes people lied about having a better future if you move west, but it was the right call. If we moved west later on, we would probably see France, Germans, who's knows who, and that would start another epic war that would affect america greatly.