HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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It helped the federal government restrict businesses activities, encouraging industrial growth.
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It helped business owners communicate and create monopolies, hurting industrial growth.
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It allowed businesses to communicate more quickly, encouraging industrial growth.
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It allowed foreign companies to boycott American goods, hurting industrial growth.
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Detailed explanation-1: -By transmitting information quickly over long distances, the telegraph facilitated the growth in the railroads, consolidated financial and commodity markets, and reduced information costs within and between firms.
Detailed explanation-2: -Beginning in 1850, submarine telegraph cables allowed for the first rapid communication between continents. Electrical telegraph networks permitted people and commerce to transmit messages across both continents and oceans almost instantly, with widespread social and economic impacts.
Detailed explanation-3: -The telegraph and the telephone Two inventions of the 19th century, the electric telegraph and the electric telephone, made reliable instantaneous communication over great distances possible for the first time.
Detailed explanation-4: -The telegraph was invented by Samuel Morse in 1844, and telegraph wires soon sprang up all along the East Coast. During the war, 15, 000 miles of telegraph cable was laid purely for military purposes.
Detailed explanation-5: -Telegraph and telephone line construction contributed to massive deforestation and habitat destruction, but this ecological impact was largely invisible to people who used the technology.