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☆☆☆☆☆The Whigs and Democrats avoided and evaded the issue of slavery in the election of 1848 by splitting down the middle on who was for and who was against slavery. Whigs and Democrats in the South wanted to keep slavery. Whigs and Democrats in the North wanted to abolish slavery.
Slavery was an issue that contributed to the event of Bleeding Kansas. Bleeding Kansas was also known as the Bloody Kansas war.
Congress established the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) in 1914.
To protect the economy from having to much money in the hands of one person, bank or region.
to allow citizens to select candidates for elections
to help small business and regulate big business
to eliminate abuses by the railroads.
The Clayton Antitrust Act spelled out what businesses could and could not do.
For the first time, the federal government stepped in to help workers in a labor dispute.
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