Why was water transport the most reliable method of moving goods at the beginning of the nineteenth century?

roads were not well constructed.

ships were the cheapest source of transportation.

it was much safer than going overland.

too many mountains blocked land routes.

Plz which of the following provisions of the compromise of 1850 was designed to appeal to slave states? a. congress passed a strict fugitive slave law. b. the slave trade was banned in washington dc. c. texas agreed to give away some of its land so that the territory would be available for future states. d. california was admitted to the union as a free state.