The excerpt below is from a law enacted by Congress in 1887 That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to
charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of
passengers or of like kind of property; under substantially similar circumstances and
conditions, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line, in the same
direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance...
Why did Congress pass this law?

Describe the social and economic effect of world war on england and usa

What parallelism is used in the following verse? day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. caesura cinquain synthetic synonymous contrasting

Ive been stuck on this question! which of the following statements about the economic consequences of the civil war is not accurate. a. inflation caused prices to rise by 80% in the north. b. because southern farms could not produce enough food for everyone in the south, the union navy allowed food shipments from britain. c. to pay for all of the food, supplies and armaments that were necessary for the union army, congress instituted an income tax. d. business bloomed in the north as factories and farms always had a market for the products.