Reading Check Draw Conclusions
How did new
technologies
help improve
communication and
bring the nation closer
together?

Steamboats carried people and goods farther and faster and led to the growth of cities like New Orleans and St. Louis. ... With the telegraph, it only took seconds to communicate with someone in another city. Telegraph lines spanned the country by 1861, bringing people closer as a nation.

Explanation:

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for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation: