Texas is a rugged state. It is arid and mostly desert with a lot of scrub. The colonists who started living in Texas had to adapt to this harsh living and scrabbled out a living, with a significant business being in cattle, which of course requires a significant amount of labor. In addition, in the early development of Texas, the citizens had to defend their territory of the Mexican population who had settled parts of these lands. Texans are tough because their environment requires that they endure significant hardships to survive.
A steamboat is a boat propelled by <em>steam</em>. In the 19th century, steamboat was widely used on rivers, especially on the Mississipi and its tributaries. Inicially they worked only on lakes and rivers, but later the <em>steam</em> was also applied to larger vessels that crossed oceans. The building of canals was very important for the economy in the United States, by reducing the prices of transportation of products from or to distant places.
Answer B. People began to build canals in the USA and Europe.
They attempted to make it cheaper and left out some deductions, in order to have the privilege and the pleasure of paying at least a small income tax.
