<span>B. The canals and railroads were designed to pass through areas well suited for towns.
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Answer:
a trade surplus, or positive trade balance
Explanation:
It is said that it has a trade surplus since only in imports and exports, it has a higher export value generating a positive profit condition and that is reflected as a surplus, which is the positive sum of exports versus imports.
The term "carpetbaggers" refers to Northerners<span> who moved to the South after the Civil War, during Reconstruction. Many carpetbaggers were said to have moved South for their own financial and political gains. Scalawags were white </span>Southerners <span>who cooperated politically with black </span>freedmen<span> and Northern newcomers.</span>