At the time, you would have been more likely to find slaves in the Tidewater areas. The Tidewater areas offered flatter and more fertile ground and as such needed more labor to work the fields; planting, maintaining and harvesting crops. The back-country often had poorer quality of soil and was inhabited by subsistence farmers, who grew vital crops for survival and rarely had surplus for export. <span />
The greatest challenge was getting along and building homes. The American Indians were there first but the American settlers came in and took their home which pushed American Indians out of their home and made them move to somewhere else which also started to The Trail of Tears
A, the first option or "He built a 113-foot long paddleboat powered by a steam engine, the Clermont, that sailed on the Hudson River."
B is wrong because the Hudson is not in either state.
C is wrong because he was never in politics.
D is wrong because his boat sailed wt/out problems.
They were not treated well, they were immigrants looking for a better life in the US and they worked for lower wages which took away jobs from people that had been in the US in many industrial cities