History of the United States II / Unit 18 USH2 2553 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The First Regulators
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The idea
Federal regulation began in unit five: the Interstate Commerce Act of eighteen eighty-seven, entry 0610, created a railroad commission, and the Sherman Act of eighteen ninety, entry 0612, outlawed trusts in restraint of trade.
In practice
A commission for the railroads and a statute against monopoly.
Where people slip
Entry 0630 calls them the first federal steps toward the regulation the Progressive Era expanded.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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