Samuel F.B. Morse created the telegraph in 1837 and ran a successful test in 1844 that made it conclusive that it will work. The new communication device was used by businessmen to transmit orders and relay fresh information on prices and sales. The telegraph was used by railroads to keep trains moving regularly and to warn engineers of safety hazards...
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The telegraph was used by railroads to keep trains moving regularly and to warn engineers of safety hazards. 23,000 miles of telegraph wire was across the country by 1853. The steamboat, invented by Robert Fulton, was a better industry. Farmers and manufacturers both used the steamboat to ship their goods to market more directly...
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King Cotton As Senator L.T. Wigfall, of Texas said, in December 1860, "Two hundred and fifty million exports will bring into our own borders - not through Boston and New York and Philadelphia, but through our own ports - $250,000,000 of imports; and forty per cent upon that puts into our treasury $100,000,000...	4 / 1026
Cotton When the cotton is taken from the ground it is compacted into a 500-pound bale that is stored in a warehouse. After the USDA approves the cotton bale it is transported to the textile mills by trucks...	2 / 301
Mr. Entire communities were without much notice forced to depend upon the price and abundance of a single crop. When the cotton industry stumbled, so, too, did the south...	2 / 453
North vs. South Unlike the North, The Southern slaves could not sell themselves for a special skilled job due to discrimination. The cotton gin was produced to slow the demand for slavery, but instead it did the opposite and accelerated the expansion of slavery...	2 / 438