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The Industrial Economy

Please read the following selections and then answer the questions in the space provided.

Suit by the United States Against the Workingman's Amalgamated Council of New Orleans (1893)

Interstate Commerce Act (1887)

1 . What image of the American economy do these documents form?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

2 . What is the common argument in these documents?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

3 . Why were the government and the courts so reluctant to regulate the industrial economy?

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