First off you’ll need to know what the 15 amendment is,
I believe that when cherry valance described things as being rough all over, she meant that life
Is a double sided coin, and that there’s good and bad things that plague people’s lives no matter how good they may seem to have it.
Hoi!
"As a result" indicates a cause-and-effect sentence. This sentence discusses the price of shipping goods, which lessened due to better ways of transportation. The price lessening is a result of of new transportation methods, so "As a result" is the correct answer.