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Anti-Trust Acts
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Trusts | Big corporations that dominated entire industries (for example, the shoe industry or the oil industry) in the late 1800s |
| The Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) and the Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914) | laws outlawing monopolies |
| monopoly | one company controls all of something |
| President Theodore Roosevelt | the president who enforced the Sherman Act (outlawing monopolies), known as a trustbuster (broke apart trusts) |