Railroads

With railroads they lead the way for America to do business as they never had before. ⁶ with the promise of a railroad system businesses saw the potential to be able to send people and goods over to the country faster than a horse could ever take anyone. It seemed like everyone wanted to get on top of this business venture once it was allowed to come to be. ¹ with the potential of being able to exchange goods with destinations like Mississippi people knew this needed to be made.⁶ They were correct in this idea due to how the economy to grow. ³ As now with it crops were able to be sold fast not to mention how with it came a new source of transportation¹. Resulting in a growth in the GDP as well as the economic growth within the country. ³

Telegraphs

Samuel Morse saw the need for rapid communication and came up with the device "Telegraph". ² Although he did not know much about electricity. Telegraphs helped the advancement of rapid communication and replaced horses and ships. ⁴ Its efficiency allowing the U.S to be revolutionized, this helped with wars, newspapers and basic communication between political leaders. In particular it helped Abraham Lincoln to communicate with military forces in the field.⁵ Telegraphs helped him to be informed at all times, give military plans and assert his authorities. Without the Telegraph this would have made communication extremely difficult, especially in the war.⁵ The speed of the telegraph did have its disadvantages, important information would spread to leaders but also the public making it harder to solve problems. This also started a higher uproar between countries because now they did not have a lot of time to cool off and disrupted methodical diplomacy. ²