The main purpose of the march led by James Meredith to Chicago was that "<span>c. it was a march in support of voting rights for black Americans," although it encompassed a variety of Civil Rights goals as well. </span>
Provided a useful way to turn iron into steel, British manufacturer who the Bessemer Process was named.
For more than a decade after its passage, the Sherman Act was invoked only rarely against industrial monopolies, and then not successfully, chiefly because of narrow judicial interpretations of what constitutes trade or commerce among states. When it was first passed, the Sherman Antitrust Act was largely ineffective at stopping industrial monopolies. Courts at the time tended to hold a very narrow view of what constituted “trade or commerce among states,” and most companies were not held liable under the act. For more than a decade after its passage, the Sherman Antitrust Act was invoked only rarely against industrial monopolies, and then not successfully. Ironically, its only effective use for a number of years was against labor unions, which were held by the courts to be illegal combinations.
The news of the Boston Tea Party reached London, England on January 20, 1774, and as a result the British<span> shut down Boston Harbor until all of the 340 chests of </span>British<span> East India Company tea were paid for. This was implemented under the 1774 Intolerable Acts and known as the Boston Port Act.</span>
