The Sherman Anti-Trust Act in 1890 was an Act that was passed after control of trusts by state legislatures failed. The Act forbade the combination of companies to restrict trade . the Act didn't specify between good and bad trusts and had no teeth untill 1914. In 1911 Taft used this law to bust the Standard Oil Company's trust. Taft was a bigger trustbuster than TR was. Another anti-trust act was the Clayton Anti- Trust Act of 1914 which gave strength to the Sherman Act by adding to the list of business practices that were deemed objectionable. The Clayton Act also gave benfits to labor and exmempted agricultural and labor organizations from antitrust prosecution.
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