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Sherman Antitrust Act: Quick Facts

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Date 1890
Participants United States

Did You Know?

  • President William Howard Taft employed the Sherman Antitrust Act against both Standard Oil and the American Tobacco Company.
  • The Sherman Act, the Clayton Act, and the Federal Trade Commission Act remain the three principal pieces of antitrust legislation in the United States.
  • The Sherman Antitrust Act was the first federal legislation to make anticompetitive commercial practices illegal.

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Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
president of United States
Edward Douglass White
Edward Douglass White
chief justice of United States
John Sherman
John Sherman
American statesman
Edmunds
George Franklin Edmunds
United States senator