WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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Celler-Kefauver Act
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Clayton Antitrust Act
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Interstate Commerce Act
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1887 Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act, making the railroads the first industry subject to federal regulation. Congress passed the law largely in response to decades of public demand that railroad operations be regulated.
Detailed explanation-2: -The national government began regulating business in the late 1800s in order to eliminate monopolies, businesses or groups that have exclusive control of an industry.
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: The U.S. Supreme Court prompted the effects on regional commerce test to decide if state laws that regulate business activities within their borders are constitutional.
Detailed explanation-4: -First, Congress may regulate the use of the channels of interstate commerce. Second, Congress can protect instrumentalities of interstate commerce, or persons or things in commerce. Third, congressional authority under the Commerce Clause reaches activities that substantially affect interstate commerce.