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Well an example would be that a monopoly company would raise their prices extremely high, and since a monopoly had all control over other companies, consumers/Americans would be forced to pay unreasonable prices for certain goods.

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Well an example would be that a monopoly company would raise their prices extremely high, and since a monopoly had all control over other companies, consumers/Americans would be forced to pay unreasonable prices for certain goods.

Led to reduced competition


Resulted in higher prices for consumers


Controlled the wages and salaries of workers

At first, the government took a  

✔ laissez-faire

approach to dealing with monopolies.

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