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

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.