How was the klan portrayed in “the birth of a nation”?

In The Birth of a Nation" the KKK was portrayed as glorified vigilantes that were helping to rescue white people they may have been in distressed.

heroic is the answer

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:

missouri compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery