Southerners Insisted That the First Transcontinental Railroad Should Run Through

question 77

Multiple Choice

Southerners insisted that the first transcontinental railroad should run through the Southwest because

• A) the use of slave labor would make the construction cheaper.
• B) the railroad would pass through the already organized New Mexico territory.
• C) it was too expensive to use camels for transcontinental transport.
• D) southern states were prepared to pay the full cost of construction.
• E) it would guarantee the area against possible Mexican efforts to take it back.

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