The first attempts to create a transcontinental railroad failed in part because the technology was not sufficient. Congress could not agree on where the line would run. the Civil War blocked construction.

What would lead a historian to consider two events to have a relationship of correlation rather than causation?

The plantation economy in the south produced a. equal opportunity for all whites and no illiteracy. b. low profits despite the enslavement of a great number of people. c. great profits and developed great educational institutions. d. great profits at the expense of cultural development and equal opportunity.

An example of a policy to buttress one's position would be: the spanish granting large tracts of land in texas to american settlers the missouri compromise stephen austin settling in missouri