Perhaps the greatest example of “trust-busting” that Theodore Roosevelt enforced was the regulation of the railroad system--which meant that railroad companies could no longer "jack" prices. This was a staple of the Progressive era.
The Industrial Revolution changed pretty much everything, and one of the things that changed significantly was the labor. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the majority of the people were working on the agricultural fields, thus they directly depended on it. This meant that they were getting money only once in the year, after the crops are sold, and that they were working on open. The development of the industry changed that. The people started to work indoors, which is an improvement as the outside effects were not bothering them anymore. Also, they were getting better wages, had fixed working time, and they were paid on much shorter periods, usually monthly, which brought greater economic stability of the people.
The first colonial legislature was the Virginia House of Burgesses, established in 1619. The colonies along the eastern coast of North America were formed under different types of charter, but most developed representative democratic governments to rule their territories.
Artisans were members of guilds in the later Middle Ages. They joined together to form guilds since individually they had little power to control the production of a particular craft.
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