The Hepburn Act of 1906 allowed the Interstate Commerce Commission the ability to extend its jurisdiction. It also gave them power to maximize railroad rates.
Amendments 13-15 were passed as a direct result of the Civil War.
The outbreak in Kansas of violent turmoils called "Bleeding Kansas" and the rise of the Republican Party in which converged the ex-Whigs and democrats freesoilers.
It was one of the components of the Compromise of 1850. Most of the provisions favoured the Union, so Congress had to make a dramatic gesture of appeasement of the South. It was a clumsy move. The Act was so unpopular in the North that 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was written directly as a protest against it.
American Civil War 1861-1865. The result was the ending of slavery in the USA.
the name of this Act was the Sugar Act which taxed the colonists for the first time
The authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission was strengthened
The authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission was strengthened
The Hepburn act gave the government the power to set and limit shipping costs.
The Hepburn act gave the government the power to set and limit shipping costs.
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Hepburn
The Hepburn Act was passed by Congress to increase the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission over railroads and certain other types of carriers. It authorized the commission to determine and prescribe just and reasonable maximum rates, establish through routes, and prescribe and enforce uniform systems of accounts. Scholars consider the Hepburn Act the most important piece of legislation regarding railroads in the first half of the 20th century. Economists and historians debate whether it crippled the railroads, giving so much advantage to the shippers that a giant unregulated trucking industry--undreamed of in 1906--took away their business. for A+: RAILROADS~ Which of these was a direct result of the Hepburn Act? The authority of the interstate Commerce Commission was stregthened.
Hepburn Act of 1906
Railroads
to eliminate abuses by the railroads.
The act gave the government the power to set and limit shipping costs.