The Path Between the Seas | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Book 1, Chapter 1

1. In which book does the author urge no action be taken prior to experts first comparing the pros and cons of all potential routes in connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?

2. In what way does author David McCullough find all early 19th-century canal plans preposterous?

3. The United States is granted exclusive right of transit across the Isthmus of Panama upon the signing of what document with Colombia in 1846?

4. What are the three main routes from the East to the West coasts of the U.S. in January of 1848, when gold is discovered in California?

5. Which steamship company, established just prior to news of the discovery of gold in California reaches the East, receives a federal subsidy to...
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