How did the telegraph improve the quality of life during the time period?

It helped communication for far distances and it also created Morse Code.

Source: Holt, United States History Independence to 1914, Deverell and White. Pg. 364-5 "In 1832, Samuel F.B. Morse perfected the telegraph--a device that could send information over wires across great distances...the telegraph sent pulses, or surges, of electric current through a wire."