The Book's Excerpt from Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi

question 1

Multiple Choice

The book's excerpt from Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi describes

• A)life on a cotton plantation in the American South.
• B)the first American railroads.
• C)the American Civil War's impact on those living along the Mississippi.
• D)the impact of steamboats on a town located on the Mississippi.
• E)political struggles in small town America during the nineteenth century.

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