THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIZATION FACTORY SYSTEM AND MARKET REVOLUTION
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It enabled instantaneous long-distance transmission of information
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It allowed manufactured goods to be produced at lower costs
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It boosted the speed of cross-country mail delivery
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It increased national unity by reducing sectional differences
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Detailed explanation-1: -Q. How did Samuel Morse’s best-known innovation contribute to U.S. growth and development? It increased national unity by reducing sectional differences.
Detailed explanation-2: -How did this invention contribute to the expansion of the plantation system? By reducing the number of slaves needed for growing cotton.
Detailed explanation-3: -That year, Morse was traveling to the United States from Europe on a ship when he overheard a conversation about electromagnetism that inspired his idea for an electric telegraph. Though he had little training in electricity, he realized that pulses of electrical current could convey information over wires.
Detailed explanation-4: -After lean, difficult years of lobbying, financial struggle, and technical improvements, Morse secured funding from Congress to build wires across the United States, and received a patent for his invention in 1844. On May 11th of that year, his telegraphed message from Baltimore to Washington was the first of its kind.
Detailed explanation-5: -The completion of the Erie Canal spurred the first great westward movement of American settlers, gave access to the rich land and resources west of the Appalachians and made New York the preeminent commercial city in the United States.