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QuizMultiple Choice

Reforming Business and Government

Question 7 • (AG Q1) US History I: 26-27 (MStackhouse)

In 1887, Congress passed which of the following pieces of legislation to regulate railroads?

Answer
A
the Sherman Antitrust Act
B
the Eighteenth Amendment
C
the Interstate Commerce Act
D
the Seventeenth Amendment

Explanation

Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act in 1887 to regulate railroad practices, including rates and unfair discrimination. The Sherman Antitrust Act came later, in 1890, and the Eighteenth and Seventeenth Amendments were ratified in the twentieth century. Therefore, the correct choice is the Interstate Commerce Act.

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