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Changing relationships. the Federal laws forbidding businesses from monopolizing a market or restraining free trade . Sherman Anti-Trust Act Effect spawned a series of regulatory commissions in the 1900s to whether they were good or bad trusts.
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the Federal laws forbidding businesses from monopolizing a market or restraining free trade. • Sherman Anti-Trust Act • Effect spawned a series of regulatory commissions in the 1900s to whether they were good or bad trusts. • Not very effective, 1914 changes made Act stronger Antitrust Acts
government’s first large scale attempt to regulate business in the interest of society at large • Effect – Act served notice that private greed must be subordinated to public good. Interstate Commerce Commission
for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, Pure Food and Drug Act