Choose the proper word(s) to complete each of the following statements about the Sherman Antitrust Act. 1. The act was designed to the power of monopolies and trusts. 2. The act lead to many successful government prosecutions. 3. The fact that the act did not define the terms “monopoly” and “trust” the act. 4. Support from the federal courts would have made the act effective.

Why were presidents andrew jackson and martin van buren unwilling to annex texas? a. they did not want texas to be admitted to the union as a slave state. b. they feared that the annexation of texas as a slave state would lead to political problems within the union. c. they thought that texas was too large to be admitted to the union as one state. d. they did not believe in the idea of manifest destiny.