<span>President Washington brought Hercules with him. He was brought to Philadelphia because it was set up as the temporary national capital. However, due to the Gradual Abolition Act, slaves had the ability to free themselves after 6 continuous months in Pennsylvania: for many of Washington's slaves, this meant rotating them in and out of the state back to Virginia as a way of ending their residency short of the 6-month mark.</span>
The interstate commerce act and the Sherman antitrust act were passed by Congress to prohibit trusts, monopolies, and cartels.
Traditional authority
Sociologist Max Weber identified three types of authority.
<u>Traditional authority</u> is tied to traditions or customs, and we continue to do things according to certain patterns because we think it's always been done that way and thus is the right path to continue. This can be used in political systems too, when the status quo and established norms and procedures continue to be seen as authoritative.
<u>Rational-legal authority</u> is how Weber described the authority or leadership powers that have been attached to certain positions by law or according to democratic processes. An elected official has such "rational-legal" authority by virtue of his office.
<u>Charismatic authority</u> was Weber's term for the personal qualities of certain individuals that make others want to follow their lead.
Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and employment as failing companies laid off workers. By 1933, when the Great Depression reached its lowest point, some 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half the country’s banks had failed.
