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what invovations was developed to help with communication for the Gold Rush?

The Gold Rush and subsequent spurt of migration to California hastened the need for better communications across the continent. The American West was quite desolate in the mid-19th century and the mail delivery system in place (using ships to carry the mail to San Fransisco from New York) did not quite meet the needs of the new settlers. What new innovations developed as a result of western migration? How did these innovations revolutionize communication in the United States?

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1. Pony Express, telegraph, railroad.
2. The evolution of the penny press in the 1830s and 1840s created, for the first time, a true mass media accessible to a majority of the American population. From Shmoop