WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Interstate Commerce Act
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Celler-Kefauver Act
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Clayton Antitrust Act
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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Detailed explanation-1: -Louis & Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois, 118 U.S. 557 (1886), also known as the Wabash Case, was a Supreme Court decision that severely limited the rights of states to control or impede interstate commerce. It led to the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Detailed explanation-2: -Those laws were struck down in 1886, when the Supreme Court ruled in Wabash v. Illinois that the state of Illinois could not restrict the rates that the Wabash Railroad was charging because its freight traffic moved between the states, and only the federal government could regulate interstate commerce.
Detailed explanation-3: -Wabash was found guilty of violating an Illinois statute prohibiting unjust discrimination in rates charged by railroad companies. The Supreme Court of Illinois upheld the Illinois statute on the ground that states may regulate subjects over which Congress has not exercised its power.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1886 the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois declared that states could not regulate commerce that went beyond their boundaries. Instead, regulation had to come from the federal government.