Answer:
In the South during the Antebellum period, the years between the late 1700s and the first half of the 1800s, what most differentiated the elite and the poor was the <u>land ownership (A)</u>.
Explanation:
The South during Antebellum was largely agricultural. Unlike northern states that were industrializing and creating many different jobs and specializations, the south focused its economic activities on agriculture.
Because of this land property was the main differentiation between classes, which means that this region was immensely unequal. Who had land formed the elite, and who hadn't was poor and had to work for the elite to survive.
Help American Industries Glow By limiting government expansion, Harding helped create the economic dynamic that led to the roaring 20s, a brisk period of economic growth.
Answer: He enforced the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Context/history:
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first measure by Congress to prohibit trusts. It was passed by Congress in 1890. A trust was when stockholders in multiple companies transferred their stock shares to a single group of trustees. Thus a whole industry area could be dominated by a single "trust" organization, destroying the free market of business competition. This was a monopolistic practice which the Sherman Anti-Trust Act ended. Thus the Sherman Anti-Trust Act directly went against the idea of those who believed business success should be based on large business owners colluding with one another.
Initially the Sherman Antitrust Act was not well enforced by US courts. But when Theodore ("Teddy") Roosevelt took office as President in 1901, he pushed enforcement of the Act and worked to reign in the power of big businesses.
Note:
The Clayton Antitrust Act was passed by Congress in 1914, after Teddy Roosevelt was no longer President.
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