Controversies over the Role of Government in the Gilded Age

AP US History· difficulty 3/5

"All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property... shall be reasonable and just; and every unjust and unreasonable charge for such service is prohibited and declared to be unlawful." — Interstate Commerce Act, 1887

This statute was passed largely in response to:

A
$Eastern bankers seeking new investment vehicles$
B
$Demands by railroad executives for federal protection$
C
$Farmer and merchant complaints about discriminatory railroad rates$
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D
$The Supreme Court's ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson$

Explanation

Granger and merchant pressure over rate discrimination, after Wabash (1886) limited state regulation, drove Congress to create the first major federal regulatory agency.

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