Excerpt from the Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of this act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad, or partly by railroad and partly by water [. . .]
Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, company, firm, corporation, or locality [. . .]
Sec. 4. That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers or of like kind of property, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions. . . .
Sec. 5. That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to enter into any contract, agreement, or combination with any other common carrier or carriers for the pooling of freights of different and competing railroads, or to divide between them the aggregate or net proceeds of the earnings of such railroads [. . .]
Use the excerpt from the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 to answer the question.
What popular big business practice of the Gilded Age is this excerpt from the Interstate Commerce Act designed to prevent?
A.
forming corporations
B.
creating monopolies
C.
bribing officials
D.
lobbying against regulations
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