A transcontinental railroad had not been built before the Civil War because
A) the Appalachian Mountains presented great engineering problems.
B) Congress refused to consider federal subsidies for a private railroad.
C) the technologies for building tunnels through the Rockies did not yet exist.
D) many southern states used the states' rights argument to reject federal aid for railroads.
E) North-South sectional differences prevented Congress from selecting a route.
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