Couldn't receive discounts for the railroads: The Elkins Act attacked rebates given to certain corporations to ship their items while farmers and small businesses were paying full price to ship their goods.
The Elkins Act made rebates or discounts for the railroad illegal. It required that everyone pay the same rate to use the rail lines preventing inequities in the transportation cost and imbalanced treatment. The high prices were putting smaller businesses and farmers out of business while larger corporations were shipping more cheaply.
Alexis de Tocqueville was born in an old Norman aristocratic family, his father was a Count and an officer of the Constitutional Guard of King Louis XVI.
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- Tocqueville, also known as Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville ( 29 July 1805 - 16 April 1859), was a French aristocrat, diplomat, political scientist, political philosopher, and historian. He is best known for his books The Old Regime and the Revolution and Democracy in America, both of which were published in two volumes between 1835 and 1840.
- He examined people's social situations, living standards, and interactions with the market and the government in Western countries in both of these works. After visiting the country, Tocqueville wrote Democracy in America, which is now regarded as an early classic of sociology and political science.
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NATO or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a military alliance formed in 1949 as a mutual defense treaty of its member countries against external attacks. It was initially formed to counter the military capabilities of the USSR. It currently has 28 member countries from North America and Europe.
The Warsaw Pact was the Soviet Union's response to NATO, and was formed in 1955. It is also a mutual defense agreement among 8 member countries in the Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe.
