Anti-Monopoly Sentiment

This 1897 cartoon by C. J. Taylor suggests that the United States government was being manipulated by business monopolies and trusts. Anti-business sentiment in the 1890s led to passage of the first federal legislation to regulate corporate behaviour.

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United States of America; Monopoly (economics); Trusts

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