This federal law was presaged by state legislation in primarily Western and Southern states, but Delaware and New Jersey were notorious for having loopholes that made this law necessary.
This federal law was presaged by state legislation in primarily Western and Southern states, but Delaware and New Jersey were notorious for having loopholes that made this law necessary. This legislation was first used five years after it was passed to serve an injunction to a striking railroad union, which affirmed the purpose that George F. Edmunds, the Senate Judiciary Chair, saw in it. It was later weakened by US v. E.C. Knight Co., and was passed by nearly unanimous vote. Succeeded by the Clayton Act, for ten points, identify this 1890 law, which prohibited any "contract, combination… or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce."
This federal law was presaged by state legislation in primarily Western and Southern states, but Delaware and New Jersey were notorious for having loopholes that made this law necessary.
{Sherman Anti-Trust} Act (prompt on “Anti-Trust”)