Sherman Antitrust ACT

Contributor(s): Cefrey, Holly (Author)

ISBN: 9780823940325

Publisher: Rosen Young Adult

$21.85

Pub Date: August 1, 2003

Dewey: 343.730721

LCCN: 2002153696

Lexile Code: 0000

Target Age Group: 10 to 13

Physical Info: 0.32" H x 8.94" L x 7.32" W ( 0.59 lbs) 32 pages

BISAC Categories:

Juvenile Nonfiction | Law and Crime

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

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000073045 ( Sherman Antitrust ACT)

Reading level: 5.60

Interest level: MG

Point value: 0.5

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: As big business trusts proliferated in the late 1800s, a number of state governments, especially those in the south and west, passed laws to regulate corporate behavior. Large corporations got around the regulations by established their businesses in states which did not have these laws. In an effort to put a stop to corporations circumventing the states' laws, the federal government passed the Sherman Antitrust Act, which was the first federal antitrust law, and called for federal action against any restraint of trade.

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