Pools were agreements between railroad corporations to divide the business in a given area and share the profits. Many companies formed these pools in order to avoid competition by dividing business in a particular area. Efforts to regulate the monopolizing practices of railroad corporation then first came in the form of action by the supreme court.
It was <span>Andrew Carnegie.</span>
During the Taiping Rebellion, the peasants rebelled. It was mostly a civil war which killed scores of people (twenty million people approximately). The movement was a millenarian movement (meaning it occurred because of religious ideology). The movement was led by Hong Xiuquan who claimed he was Jesus' younger brother.
The nation's founders believed that containing the government's power and protecting liberty was their most important task, and declared a new purpose for government: the protection of individual rights.
