What was the main reason for people in the lower class being very poor during the Antebellum era?

nothing certain is known about what happened, but it seems that the country declined gradually, perhaps due to bad government, or, more likely, due to a series of bad harvests, which resulted in widespread and recurrent famine.

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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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back in the area of iowa even though you were found in florida there is a system that they dont want to tell you about where they can go fish for you in other states and bring you back to be tried in front of the crime scene so your location

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