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04.12 Proof or Satire Post-test - 100% Correct The Pony Express Chapter I At A Nation's Crisis The Pony Express was the first rapid transit and the first fast mail line across the continent from the Missouri River to the Pacific Coast. It was a system by means of which messages were carried s...

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The Pony Express


Chapter I


At A Nation's Crisis




The Pony Express was the first rapid transit and the first fast mail line across the continent from the

Missouri River to the Pacific Coast. It was a system by means of which messages were carried swiftly on

horseback across the plains and deserts, and over the mountains of the far West. It brought the Atlantic

coast and the Pacific slope ten days nearer to each other.




It had a brief existence of only sixteen months and was supplanted by the transcontinental telegraph. Yet

it was of the greatest importance in binding the East and West together at a time when overland travel

was slow and cumbersome, and when a great national crisis made the rapid communication of news

between these sections an imperative necessity.


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The Pony Express marked the highest development in overland travel prior to the coming of the Pacific

railroad, which it preceded nine years. It, in fact, - Ans:✔✔-A time when overland travel was slow and

cumbersome


The Pony Express


Chapter I


At A Nation's Crisis




The fall of Fort Sumter in April, 1861, did not produce the Civil War crisis. For many months, the gigantic

struggle then imminent had been painfully discernible to far-seeing men. In 1858, Lincoln had

forewarned the country in his "House Divided" speech. As early as the beginning of the year 1860 the

Union had been plainly in jeopardy. Early in February of that momentous year, Jefferson Davis, on behalf

of the South, had introduced his famous resolutions in the Senate of the United States. This document

was the ultimatum of the dissatisfied slave-holding commonwealths. It demanded that Congress should

protect slavery throughout the domain of the United States. The territories, it declared, were the

common property of the states of the Union and hence open to the citizens of all states with all their

personal possessions. The Northern states, furthermore, were no longe - Ans:✔✔-Essentially different


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