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.
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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