Interstate Commerce ACT

Contributor(s): Cefrey, Holly (Author)

ISBN: 9780823940271

Publisher: Rosen Young Adult

$21.85

Pub Date: August 1, 2003

Dewey: 343.73088

LCCN: 2002153698

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps

Target Age Group: 10 to 13

Physical Info: 0.33" H x 8.92" L x 7.34" W ( 0.60 lbs) 32 pages

BISAC Categories:

Juvenile Nonfiction | Law and Crime | History | United States 19th Century

Series: America's Industrial Society in the 19th Century

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000073040 ( Interstate Commerce ACT)

Reading level: 5.90

Interest level: MG

Point value: 0.5

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: In the years following the Civil War, railroads were privately owned and entirely unregulated. As the railroad industry grew and became more important to the growth of our young nation, the public demanded that these same railroads be regulated by the government. Since these railroads were the only fast transportation in the areas in which they ran, the companies held natural monopolies. In 1887, Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act, making the railroads the first industry subject to federal regulation.

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