Where would you want to go and why??

With changes and shifts in American society, discuss who you are and where you would like to go, and why?  Give context to the time period we are discussing. Please be sure to discuss the changes in transportation and communication- The consciousness of a new nation, and westward expansion

(The textbook is Give Me Liberty!: An American History (Seagull Sixth Edition) (Vol. 1 by Eric Foner)