How did the government attempt to regulate big business? business leaders were instructed to form cartels. congress passed the sherman antitrust act. industrialists were encouraged to cut production costs.

The correct answer is: "Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act"

The Sherman Antitrust Act was a federal antitrust law enacted in the US in 1890, during Harrison's presidency.

It attempted to regulate competition among enterprises, as during the industralization era many companies started to reach agreements with their potential competitors and to function as monopolies, harming consumers and competitiveness in the national economy and enriching themselves by fixing high prices for their products.

americans had many intangible advantages. well since the british fought a war far from home military orders, troops, and supplies sometimes took months to reach their destinations, and the british had an extremely difficult objective. they had to persuade the americans to give up their claims of independence, americans had a grand cause: fighting for their rights, their independence and their liberty. this cause is much more just than waging a war to deny independence.