The Sherman Antitrust Act
The Clayton act
The Federal Trade Commission Act
The Robinson-Patman Act
The Wheeler-Lea Act
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What year was the Sherman act passed?
1890
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Why was the Clayton act passed?
to lesson the competition or tend to create monopoly.
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When was the act passed?
1914
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Why was this act passed?
to attempt to decrease the failure rate of small businesses.
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Until the wheeler-lea act was passed the FTC act could only?
restrict practices that were unfair to competitors
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What is it called when you combine two companies together?
A Trust
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What occurs when a seller charges different prices for different buyers for the same produce?
price discrimination
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Why was the act designed?
to prohibit aggressive price cutting
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This act prohibits what?
suppliers from offering special discounts to large chains unless they also offered it to everyone else.
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The wheeler-lea act is commonly known as what?
Advertising Act
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What is a Merger?
occurs when one company buys more than half the stock in other county, putting them under one management.
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What year was the Clayton Act passed?
1914
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This act declared that?
unfair methods of competition in commerce was illegal
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This act protects small businesses from?
the competition of large and growing chain stores.
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This act empowered the government agency to?
to deal with false and deceptive acts or practices by businesses.
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You are deemed what when you monopolize or attempt to monopolize or conspire with any other person or persons to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce?
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
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Tying contract definition
is an arrangement whereby the sale of one product depends on the purchase of some other product or products.
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What was this act sometimes referred to?
cutthroat
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What year was this act passed
1936
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When was the act passed?
1938
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This is hereby______ when you use a contract to combine a form of trust or otherwise a conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce.
illegal
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What was another reason the act was passed?
to further clarify the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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What does FTC stand for?
The Federal Trade Commission
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What is another name for this act?
Anti-Price Discrimination Act
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This act controlled what?
FALSE ADVERTISING
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