Interstate Commerce Act

…administrative tribunals began with the Interstate Commerce Act (1887), establishing the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate railways and other carriers. This law introduced a new type of federal agency, outside the framework of the executive departments and largely independent of the president. Other regulatory commissions followed: the Federal Trade Commission,…

…induced Congress to enact the Interstate Commerce Act in 1887.

…Sherman Antitrust Act and the Interstate Commerce Act, also prevented the ARU leadership from communicating with their subordinates.

…government in the 1880s: the Interstate Commerce Act (1887), which established the Interstate Commerce Commission, the first regulatory agency in the United States, and the Dawes General Allotment Act (1887), which redistributed Native American reservation land to individual tribe members.