During the gilded age, how did the us congress respond to the rise of monopolies?

They passed the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890 and the Interstate Commerce Commission set up to regulate trade. 

Cherokee  removal, part of the trail of tears, refers to the  forced  relocation between 1836 and 1839 of thecherokee  nation from  their lands ingeorgia, south carolina, north carolina, tennessee, texas, and alabama to the indian territory (present day oklahoma)  in  the thenwestern united states, and the resultant deaths