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Producer of everything
-hit full speed after the Civil War
-when south fled Washington, North got congress to pass laws to protect factories against foreign competition & import cheap labor from Europe
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1880-too many time zones, railroad couldn't keep up, needed ORDER
1918-Congress established
(Eastern, Central, Rocky Mountain, Pacific)
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-Men like Carnegie drove others out of business by "cost cutting"
-Prices soon determined by "trusts" |
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| courts struck down law regulating railroads that crossed state boundaries. |
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Interstate Commerse Commission (1887) |
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| was supposed to control unfair rebates on railways but could not control enough to set fair rates. |
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) |
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| tried to out law businessmen that tried to monopolize markets. (trade) |
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-when corporate leaders often pulled illegal stuff to be "efficient"
i.e.-->Rockafellar=delivered cheap oil for lamps
*corrupted politics, undercut laws , stiffled competition |
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Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) |
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| "seperate but equal" facilities |
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