Women filled factory jobs. Women's war effort helped bring about passage of the 19th Amendment after the war giving women the right to vote. Black soldiers still served in segregated units. ... In the “Great Migration” thousands of African Americans moved to the North to work in factories
That is true. By making travel on rivers more efficient.
the answer is basically the scientific method.
The major physical feature that you would have to cross in order to reach this destination would be the Appalachian Mountains, since these were so large that they discouraged travel to this region for quite some time. <span />