Without food people became malnourished therefore a decrease of population due to famine so no births and productivity since people were too weak to work.
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.
The sides both expected a speedy triumph yet they weren't right as the war went on for a long time ending the lives of numerous. The main real skirmish of the Civil War was the First Battle if Bull Run. The Confederacy won which stunned Northerners and made them understand that the war could be long and troublesome.
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