Question

According to the map, the greatest impediment to people traveling from Illinois to California in the early 1800s was

A) the danger of Indian attack.
B) a likelihood of bad weather.
C) the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada Range.
D) the failure to cross the Ohio and Tennessee rivers.

Answer 1

If we carefully examined the map of the United States in the early 1800s, we will observe that what seemed to be the greatest impediment to people who traveled from Illinois to California are the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada Range.