In the 1890s the U.S. government went after a sugar-refining monopoly under this new law
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Sherman Antitrust Act and monopolies - The Linux Information Project  Jun 17, 2004 ... A monopoly is a situation in which there is a single supplier or seller ... refining capacity and most of the oil marketing facilities in the U.S. ... For more than a decade after its passage, the Sherman Antitrust Act ... In a seminal 1904 decision, the Supreme Court upheld the Federal Government's suit under the...
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Sherman Antitrust Act facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  the first and most significant of the U.S. antitrust laws, was signed into law by President ... The most notorious of the trusts were the Sugar Trust, the Whisky Trust, the ... of the new deal encouraged industrial collaboration rather than competition. .... The public suffers under a monopolistic market because it does not have the...
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890  Under the Clayton Act, private parties may sue in U.S. district court and should ... The Court ruled that the American Sugar Refining Company, one of the other ... Court upheld the Federal Government's suit under the Sherman Antitrust Act to ... after years of litigation, the Court found Standard Oil Company of New Jersey in...
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Our Documents - Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)  Approved July 2, 1890, The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that ... the Senate finance committee and the Secretary of the Treasury under President Hayes. ... President Benjamin Harrison signed the bill into law on July 2, 1890. ... The Court ruled that the American Sugar Refining Company, one of the other...
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BRIA 16 2 b Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Monopoly ...  Following the Civil War, few laws limited how businesses went about making money. ... By 1870, Rockefeller and new partners were operating two oil refineries in ... The partners incorporated (under a charter issued by the state of Ohio) and ... the federal government had passed antitrust laws that attacked monopoly abuses...
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The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 | IIP Digital  Apr 3, 2008 ... As a result, independent oil companies were crushed, many of them selling out to Standard Oil. ... a court order to dissolve the Standard Oil Company, but Rockefeller simply .... competition between the railroads and created a monopoly. ... Court cases can take a long time, but in 1911, the Supreme Court...
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Sherman Antitrust Act - Wikipedia  The Sherman Antitrust Act is a landmark federal statute in the history of United States antitrust law (or "competition law") passed by Congress in 1890. Passed under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison, it prohibits certain .... Senator George Hoar of Massachusetts, another author of the Sherman Act, said the following: ".
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TTB | The Whiskey Rebellion - Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade ...  Aug 21, 2014 ... In early 1791, to help pay off the resulting national debt, Congress used ... The 1791 excise law set a varying six to 18-cent per gallon tax rate, ... accepted the new excise tax since they could pass its cost onto their cash-paying customers. .... Penn-sylvania, and prepared to march west to end the rebellion.
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Ship Passengers and World Seaports. 1800s San Francisco - The ...  The new town of Crockett, six miles west of Martinez, exists on paper. ... The new ferry, boatBenicia has just been completed, and commenced her trips .... In 1906, the California and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company began ... employed 490 people and produced 67,000 tons of refined cane sugar. .... U.S. Coast Guard
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Sherman Antitrust Act - Wikipedia  The Sherman Antitrust Act is a landmark federal statute in the history of United States antitrust law (or "competition law") passed by Congress in 1890. .... Senator George Hoar of Massachusetts, another author of the Sherman Act, said the...
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"No Taxation without Representation" (Part 1) - Journal of the ...  May 21, 2013 ... Tudor seems to have projected the famous phrase back onto Otis's 1761 argument. ... Instead, in his pamphlet The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and ... In April 1764, that legislature passed what became known as the Sugar Act, .... The protest against British taxation imposed by Parliament began...
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Sherman Silver Purchase Act - Wikipedia  The Sherman Silver Purchase Act was a United States federal law enacted on July 14, 1890. ... but once both houses of Congress had passed the Act and the Act had been sent to a Senate/House conference ... William McKinley, an Ohio Republican and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee worked with...
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History of the United States (18651918) - Wikipedia  The history of the United States from 1865 until 1918 covers the Reconstruction Era, the Gilded ... Puerto Rico and (and some smaller islands) became permanent U.S. .... control of the south until the rise of the Populist movement in the 1890s. ..... It created for the first time a class of the super-rich "captains of industry", the...
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Constanin Fahlberg announces he discovered saccharin  ... Fahlberg was working on the furthest thing from an artificial sweetener: coal ... in 1879, Fahlberg announced a discovery that outsugared sugar, as he put it.
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Meat Inspection Act of 1906 | United States [1906] | Britannica.com  Aug 11, 2016 ... The law reformed the meatpacking industry, mandating that the U.S. Department of ... to the Chicago packinghouses came with the work of Upton Sinclair. ... a year in Chicago to write an expos of the Beef Trust's exploitation of workers. ... Inspection Act and a Pure Food and Drug Act. Passage of the former...
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Sherman Antitrust Act facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 (15 U.S.C.A.  1 et seq.) ... The most notorious of the trusts were the Sugar Trust, the Whisky Trust, the Cordage Trust, the .... Evidence of a concerted action may be shown by an express or written ..... Hoar and Vermont senator George Edmunds, Congress passed a national antitrust law.
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Sherman Antitrust Act facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 (15 U.S.C.A.  1 et seq.) ... The trusts found that through consolidation they could charge monopoly prices and ... In effect, Congress passed the problem of enforcing the law to the executive branch, and ... During the 1920s, enforcement efforts were more modest, and during much of the...
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Our Documents - Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)  It was named for Senator John Sherman of Ohio, who was a chairman of the Senate ... President Benjamin Harrison signed the bill into law on July 2, 1890. ... This allowed the Standard Oil to function as a monopoly since the nine trustees ... In the late 1990s, in another effort to ensure a competitive free market system, the...
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The 1884 Alaska Organic Act - ExploreNorth.com  The First Organic Act created the District of Alaska, and allowed for the ... for offences committed against the laws of the district or of the United States until the ... on justices of the peace under the general laws of the State of Oregon, so far as .... be used for court-rooms and offices of the civil government; and the Secretary of...
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Important Laws in American History  Alien and Sedition Act (1798) restricted rights of immigrants and freedoms of speech ... and said that they had to ratify the 14th Amendment and allow former slaves to vote ... Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) first attempt by federal government to regulate ... Labor Management Relations Act (Taft-Hartley Act) (1947) limited labor...
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US History I Chapter 16 Flashcards | Quizlet  ratified in 1919; manufacture, sale, or distribution of alcoholic beverages was ... that would ban making, selling, and distribution of alcoholic beverages; Women's ... neutral third party settle the differences; [in terms of 1902 Coal Strike: union ... Wilson's platform of proposals which called for lower tariffs, banking reform, and...