Sherman Antitrust Act
The purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act was to stop expanding corporations from preventing free competition. This Act was passed in 1890 and it made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other countries. It was hard to prosecute these corporations of forming trusts because trust was not exactly defined. There was easy ways for a company to get around prosecution. The Supreme Court threw out seven of eight cases regarding trust. Due to the difficulty of prosecution the government stopped trying to enforce the Sherman Antitrust Act. Though the act was passed with the intention of stopping trust it didn't do much.