<span>in closed meetings, by a small group of privileged citizens</span>
Both the Elkins Act and the Hepburn Act increased the government's ability to C. REGULATE UNFAIR BUSINESS PRACTICES BY RAILROAD.
The Elkins Act of 1903 authorizes Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to impose heavy fines on railroad companies that offered rebates and on shippers who accepted these rebates.
The Hepburn Act or Hepburn Rate Bill gave authority to the ICC to regulate the railroad shipping rates.
Reform=political or social change
Abolition=the formal end of something, such as slavery
Strike=when the members of a union stop work as a way to pressure change
Collective bargaining =negotiations between workers and employers
Suffrage= right to vote
