The U. S. government made attempts to regulate monopolies and trusts during the "Gilded Age." Which of the following statements most accurately describes the results of those regulations:
a) anti-trust regulation was strictly enforced and monopolies were broken up
b) government regulation was only successful with a few monopolies or trusts but the big corporations were not effected
c) most of the efforts to regulate trust or monopolies were vaguely worded and thus ineffective, additionally Supreme Court decisions limited the effectiveness of Federal government
regulation
d) government regulation put an end to vertical integration but left horizontal integration untouched