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AP US History
Unit 6 – Industrialization and the Gilded Age, 1865–1898
Topic 6.5
What may have happened if Samuel Morse failed to popularize the use of telegraph?
People would have continued to use mail exclusively for communication.
Information flow between cities and countries might've remained slow and inefficient longer than it did.
The invention of the Internet would've been delayed significantly.
Businesses and governments wouldn't have been able to operate effectively due to lack of instantaneous communication options.
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