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What Was The Importance Of New Inventions From 1820 To 1860

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The importance of new inventions, railroads, and clipper ships in the Northern economy were very important to people and trade alike. The new inventions were important, such as the telegraph and the mechanical reaper, helped to transmit messages and cultivate more land quicker respectively. The telegraph allowed communication to be brought over long distances, it’s first message being ,” What hath God wrought” from Washington D.C. to Baltimore. Railroads were important to the economy by the speed and time it took them to ship goods. The first railroad, The Baltimore and Ohio, began in 1828. At first, horses carried the carts, but then Peter Cooper made the first locomotive. After that, 3,000 miles of railroad had already
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