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Why was the construction of the transcontinental railroad so important? a. It linked the North and the South. b. It allowed the Confederate forces to reach their battlefields quickly. c. It allowed plantation
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Why was the construction of the transcontinental railroad so important?

a. It linked the North and the South.
b. It allowed the Confederate forces to reach their battlefields quickly.
c. It allowed plantation owners to ship their cotton to Britain more quickly.
d. It linked the nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

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D

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D Because it does not run north to south, it was completed after the Civil War, and it didn't really help to ship cotton to Britain more quickly.
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