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What changes have the railroads made since the Staggers Rail Act was passed?
upgrade their systems, reinvest in productive rail infrastructure, generate higher levels of service and greater volumes of traffic, dramatically increase productivity, improve profitability from once anemic levels, and improve safety
Has the Staggers Rail Act been a success?
In 2005 W. C. Vantuono reported that twenty-five years after it was passed, the Staggers Rail Act was doing exactly what it was supposed to do: help move the railroads toward revenue adequacy.
When was the Staggers Rail and Motor Act passed?
Staggers Rail Act and the Motor Carrier Act of 1980
Why did railroads try and stop farmer's from organizing?
Organized farmers would get state and Federal Laws passed that would regulate the railroads.
Who supervised railroads after the Interstate Commerce Act was passed?
because
When state governments passed Granger laws?
railroads protested that only the federal government, not states, could regulate railroads
When was the first federal law regulating railroads passed?
The first federal law regulating railroads in the United States was passed on February 14, 1887. It was called the Interstate Commerce Act. The act was primarily aimed at regulating unfair and discriminatory practices by railroads and creating the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to oversee the industry.
What law passed by congress which prohibited railroads from accepting rebates from their best customers?
The Elkins Act
Who was the president that was responsible for seeing that the Interstate Commerce Act which regulated railroads was passed?
Grover Cleveland
Which of these statements is not true regarding the regarding the expansion of the railroads?
One statement that is not true regarding the expansion of the railroads is that no laws were passed to regulate the railroads. This was during the expansion from 1860 to 1900. (A+) Railroad expansion took business away from the trucking industry.
The Mann-Elkins Act was passed to regulate?
Railroads and communications. It strengthened the (very weak and ineffective) Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 and the Elkins Act of 1903 and the Hepburn Act of 1906 which also regulated railroads.
The Intolerable Acts were passed to increase trade.?
The Intolerable Acts were not necessarily passed to increase trade, though that could have been a byproduct. The acts were passed to limit British authority on colonist trade.
