The creation of the interstate commerce commission (1887) and the passage of the sherman antitrust act (1890) showed that laissez-faire capitalism would be upheld by the federal government the federal government could not challenge state regulation of business federal civil servants would be hired based on merit rather than political patronage the federal government could regulate business practices

religion played a major role in the american revolution by offering a moral sanction for opposition to the british--an assurance to the average american that revolution was justified in the sight of god. the revolution strengthened millennialist strains in american.

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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