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"John Sherman is born in Lancaster, Ohio."
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"Senator Sherman introduced Section 1 in Congress."
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"The Sherman Act passed unanimously (242-0) in the House of Representatives and was then signed into law by President Benjamin Harrison on July 2, 1890."
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The American Railway Union founded in 1893 is an illegal contract.
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Addyston Pipe and Steel Company was found guilty due to monopolistic practices. It also established "rule of reason."
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"Northern Securities Company was a railroad trust that fixed prices and controlled the Northern Pacific Railway, Great Northern Railway, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroads."
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"Standard Oil is accused of monopolizing into a single company in New Jersey owned by John Rockefeller. Standard Oil would lose the case and would be split up into 33 separate companies."
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Theodore Roosevelt begins his term and was nicknamed the "trust buster."
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Clayton act is added to clarify Section 2 of the Sherman Act. It defined illegal and anticompetitive merging.
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"US steel owned by JP Morgan is broken up by antitrust laws during Woodrow Wilson's administration."
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"United States Department Justice investigated Microsoft for antitrust claims due to the bundling of Internet Explorer with their operating system."
