In paragraph 3, chief powhatan says "captain smith this might soon be your fate too through your rashness and unadvisedness. how does this quote contribute to the development of idea in the passage?

the name of the theory is landmass theory.

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 northwest ordinance of 1787 guaranteed basic rights for settlers and banned slavery there.