Southerners wanted a transcontinental railroad to travel a Southern route for all of the following reasons, EXCEPT:
a. The railroad would channel the flow of gold from California through their region.
b. The railroad would allow new settlement.
c. The railroad would spread cotton agriculture.
d. The railroad would bring badly needed industrial development to the South.
ANSWER: d
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