The Sherman Antitrust act was created for that purpose, but it was also supported by the Clayton Antitrust Act which came later on. Roosevelt was known as "Teddy the Trust-Buster" for his strict enforcement of these acts.
Most Americans were in the middle of happy but a little mad. It helped get Reagan elected because he was part of that.
France had a strong army.
Americans would be stopped in their expansion of manifest destiny.
As part of being readmitted to the Union, states had to ratify the new amendments to the Constitution. The Union did a lot to help the South during the Reconstruction. They rebuilt roads, got farms running again, and built schools for poor and black children. Eventually the economy in the South began to recover.
The reason why some of the founders of the American republic considered the lack of a national executive and judiciary under the Articles of Confederation as one <span>of the documents great strenghts is because the favored a weak central government and "strong" individual states--since they were afraid that a strong central government would become tyrannical. </span>
