Its response, the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, was brief and to the point.
In 1890 Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act, a law aimed at restoring competition and free enterprise by breaking up big business combinations known as monopolies.
A law regulating the railroads was enacted in 1887 (Interstate Commerce Act) and another, preventing large firms from controlling a single industry, in 1890 (Sherman Antitrust Act).
