Early National Era Question
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What was the main factor contributing to the decline in the importance of the National Road in the 1850s?
- railroads provided faster transportation
- crumbling pavement made it impossible to use
- a national depression made it so that people could not afford the journey
- tensions with American Indians in the west made travelers afraid to use the road