In the late 19th century what accelerated the development of virtually every other industry ? Is it railroads ,canal-building, the telegraph, oil and gas

they remained in rural areas and worked at jobs such as lumbering or farming.

1.d 2.a c.!

answer: the time zones used to be whatever the local authority wanted them to be. one town might have 6am whenever the sun came up and another town had 6am 10 minutes later.  

the trains had a hard time when their orders said to be at a certain point at 6am.  

6am, but who's 6am.  

the railroads got together and set the time zones more or less along the longitude lines across the country.

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