Railroad RegulationBY : Cassandra Moree ,Danielle

Enloe,Nurjahn Telfer

Unfairness in the business of rates and farm shipping

Example: Rockefeller gets low rates while others who are starting get high rates

Causes of the Movement

Get fairness among all business and farming transportations

to make reasonable rates for transportation

Goals

Hepburn Act◦ gave strong enforcement laws ◦ Regulate railroad rates◦ Essential to both legislative and judicial

Interstate Commerce Act◦ Made the rates reasonable

Transportation Act of 1920◦ Control of railroads to cooperate owners as of

March, 1920

Reforms (Acts, Laws, etc.)

President Roosevelt◦ Used position to his long goal set regulation of

R.R*◦ Won passing of 1906 of Hepburn Act

William Peters Hepburn◦ Supported the Hepburn Act◦ Was part of making reasonable rates

People associated

William G. McAdoo Director of railroads (general) Want the government to operate the railroads for 5

more years

People associated cont.

ICC: Regions where the competition was dominated Took advantage of its monopoly Reduced rates in certain areas but raised in others

Groups associated

Transportation Act of 1920 Is still intact to this day

Canadian National Entertainment Beginning of radio stations today

Impact

Hepburn Act." Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History. Ed. Thomas Carson and Mary Bonk. Detroit: Gale, 1999. U.S. History in Context. Web. 6 Oct. 2014

Jaycox, Faith. The Progressive Era. New York: Facts On File, 2005. Print.

Joy, Mark S. "Railroads." The Twenties in America. Ed. Rollyson Carl. Salem Press, 2012. Salem History Web. 02 Oct. 2014.

Romero, Francine Sanders. Presidents from Theodore Roosevelt through 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. 02 Oct. 2014.

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