A major difference between the governments of the British colonies and those of other European nations was that?

the colonies were a like in that all had close ties to England they were mainly inhabited English-speaking people aside from some of Maryland they were largely Protestant , the middle colonies in New England had few slaves while the southern colonies had African much of the population

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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