BY : Cassandra Moree ,Danielle Enloe,Nurjahn
Telfer
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Unfairness in the business of rates and farm
shipping
 Example: Rockefeller gets low rates while others who
are starting get high rates
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Get fairness among all business and farming
transportations
 to make reasonable rates for transportation
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Hepburn Act
◦ gave strong enforcement laws
◦ Regulate railroad rates
◦ Essential to both legislative and judicial
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Interstate Commerce Act
◦ Made the rates reasonable
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Transportation Act of 1920
◦ Control of railroads to cooperate owners as of
March, 1920
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President Roosevelt
◦ Used position to his long goal set regulation of R.R*
◦ Won passing of 1906 of Hepburn Act
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William Peters Hepburn
◦ Supported the Hepburn Act
◦ Was part of making reasonable rates
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William G. McAdoo
 Director of railroads (general)
 Want the government to operate the railroads for 5
more years
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ICC:
 Regions where the competition was dominated
 Took advantage of its monopoly
 Reduced rates in certain areas but raised in others
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Transportation Act of 1920
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Is still intact to this day
Canadian National
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Entertainment
Beginning of radio stations today
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Carson and Mary Bonk. Detroit: Gale, 1999. U.S. History in Context. Web. 6
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Press, 2012. Salem History Web. 02 Oct. 2014.
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Coolidge, 1901-1929: Debating the Issues in Pro and Con Primary
Documents. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. Print.
Thomas, Emory M. "Interstate Commerce Act." Great Events from History: The
Nineteenth Century. Ed. Powell John. Salem Press, 2007. Salem History Web.
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https://www.cn.ca/en/about-cn/who-we-are/history/logo-evolution
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Commerce_Commission
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