Read the passage. According to Mark Twain, many steamboat pilots were out of work, because people were traveling by railroad. The Civil War also hurt the steamboat business.
From Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
. . . The days of [steamboat piloting] were numbered. First, the new railroad stretching up through Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky, to Northern railway centers, began to divert the passenger travel from the [steamboats]; next the [Civil War] came and almost entirely annihilated the steamboating industry during several years, leaving most of the pilots idle . . .
Which is he using to develop his cause-and-effect writing?
chain of causes and effects
many causes and single effect
single cause and many effects
