The Transcontinental Railroad Through Union Pacific

The Transcontinental Railroad through union Pacific built this amazing new edifice of economic prosperity. It was the railroads that first introduced America to this idea that monopolies could be a problem. They monopoly starts exerting its influence on America in the 1870s and the 1880s. This eventually culminates in a blowback from agrarians and the Grange, and they passed the first antitrust act - Sherman Antitrust Act.