San Francisco Bay
age courty of the US Geological Survey
Following the Civil War, many businesses were started in the San Francisco Bay area in order to
A raise crops on the prairie lands.
B. purchase staves to bring back East
C. hunt bear and other wild game
D. ship their goods to other countries

d

definition

san fransisco bay area was needed to ship their goods to other countries

to extend a country’s power and influence

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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