Why was the construction of the transcontinental railroad so important? It allowed the Confederate forces to reach their battlefields quickly.

It allowed plantation owners to ship their cotton to Britain more quickly.

It linked the nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

It linked the North and the South.

C I'm pretty sure. That was one of the main reasons for building it

native americans suffered high rates of poverty and unemployment.

during the late 1960s and early 1970sthe need for political militancy grew among the native americans. throughout the 1960s, they had been the nation's poorest minority group, the most deprived group, according to practically every socioeconomic measure. in 1970, the indian unemployment rate was 10 times the national average, and 40 percent of the native american people were below the poverty line.