What were some of the pluses and minuses about traveling west?

Mius: It was dangerous.
Plus: If you survived, there were endless opprotunities for success. 

Positive: More resources/raw material,jobs in industry, and expanding culture, people, and country.

Negitive: talking over indigenous lands,and causing many issues with who gets land,who does what land ,who does what to the land, and deadly problems coming  from the forced assimilation by settlers on to the indians.

In my honest opinion , i’d say franklin d roosevelt was a president that impacted our nation , i say this because fdr is voted among top three best us presidents and he was the longest serving president by 3 terms , usually presidents only supposed to have two terms increments of 4 years , equivalent to 8 years total before election time. and he established the fdic , through the 1933 banking act and he established the us , social security system , during his presidency, and established a national minimum wage , through the fair labor standards act , fdr led the allied coalition to victory in wwii and he played a major role in the creation of the united nations.

Ibelieve the answer to be e