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Sherman Antitrust Act
Reducing competition is good for business owners, but it usually isn't good for consumers. As more and more business mergers occurred, the government passed the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890. This law was designed to make it much more difficult for business mergers to occur and for monopolies to form. -
Environmental Damage
Industrial pollution, unregulated use of natural resources, Poor sanitation which causes disease. -
Unemployment
Until the nineteenth century, the concept of unemployment was alien. Most people didn’t earn a wage; they did not have “jobs.” They farmed, or traded, or served, or fought. Some were artisans or blacksmiths or stevedores, but most worked the land to nurse food out of stubborn soil. Factories were small, with a few dozen workers. -
Pure food and Drug Act
For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or brandished or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.
