The early 1800s certainly saw the creation of a new form of communication with the volatile invention known as the telegraph. It might have happened almost in the mid-1800s in 1845, but it would forever change the outcome of the political and cultural wars between America and foreigners and even the most monumental domestic feud in history, the Civil War . Just three years after the invention of the telegraph, America went to war with Mexico over ownership of several territories now known as California, New Mexico, and Arizona. Unfortunately for Mexico, the loss of these three territories meant that it lost a third of its supposed overall control over the developing country known as America. Nearly 25 years after the War for the Three Territories, another war came together when the United States was split down the middle over the role slavery should play in shaping their country. This war became known as the Civil War and featured the free North side and the incarcerated slave South. The availability of the telegraph was the advantage the North needed to be strategically in position....