in those days settlers and store owners picked thier goods up with wagons
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Southerners opposed Clay's American Systems because the south already had rivers to transport goods and they did not want to pay for roads and canals that brought them no benefit. Since Southerners had to pay tariff, they wanted to make sure that when the tariff was used, they profit from it as well.
Theodore Judah was the person who convinced the railroad officials that it was possible to build a railroad line across line across the Sierra Nevada Mountains.He is also considered as the "Father of first Transcontinental Railroads.Judah had many opportunities that the people prior to him did not have.