Reading | Question 1 of 10

According to paragraph 1, each of the following is true about railroad track in the United States EXCEPT

  • In 1850 the United States had less than 10,000 miles of railroad track.
  • By the end of the 1850s, Ohio and Illinois contained more railroad track than any other state in the country.
  • Much of the railroad track built in the United States during the 1850s was located west of the Appalachian Mountain.
  • By 1860 there were more miles of railroad track in the United States than in any other country.
Railroads and Commercial Agriculture in Nineteenth-Century United States