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Businesses having a large number of customers can dramatically increase profits with small changes to the price. This simple economic fact led to railroad regulation.

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The American Civil War created relationships between government and business concerns that continued after the war and sparked Gilded Age industrialization.

When nearly half a million railroad workers threatened to strike and disrupt interstate commerce, Woodrow Wilson went before Congress requesting emergency legislation.

Theodore Roosevelt's plan to place William Taft into the Presidency as a hand-picked successor did not turn out as well as he had hoped, as Taft had a mind of his own.

What do these two seemingly unrelated transportation pipelines have in common?

Beginning a new term in office, Teddy Roosevelt pushed for programs to protect the food supply, address worker problems, and promote environmental conservation.