GK
INVENTIONS
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It increased cotton production and the expansion of slavery.
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It allowed people to communicate more easily over long distances.
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It led to faster transportation and improved trade.
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It raised the price that Southerners could get for their cotton.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Rather than taking weeks to be delivered by horse-and-carriage mail carts, pieces of news could be exchanged between telegraph stations almost instantly. The telegraph also had a profound economic effect, allowing money to be “wired” across great distances.
Detailed explanation-2: -They connected people together regardless of location. This created epicenters of finance, politics and communication. The telegraph also formed a foundation on which technology, such as the telephone, could build on. Without Morse code or the telegraph, we would not be as connected as we are today.
Detailed explanation-3: -In addition to helping invent the telegraph, Morse developed a code that assigned a set of dots and dashes to each letter of the English alphabet, allowing for simple transmission of complex messages across telegraph lines. In 1844, Morse sent his first telegraph message, from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore.
Detailed explanation-4: -Samuel Morse independently developed and patented a recording electric telegraph in 1837, which revolutionized long-distance communication by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.