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words:
1. protectorate
2.sphere of influence
3.direct rule
4.indirect rule
5.concession
definitions:
a. local rulers stayed in power under european "guidance"
b. country with its own government but under the control of another outside power
c. officials were sent to govern a colony from the ruling country
d. special economic rights given to a foreign power after war
e. area in which an outside power claims exclusive investment rights.

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.

explanation:

the correct answer is a: slaves from other colonies ran away to georgia.