The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
A)immediately reduced the number of trusts and the incidence of anticompetitive behavior
B)established the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice
C)did not apply to farmers
D)was not fully enforced at first
E)prohibited price discrimination

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The Sherman Antitrust Act was not fully enforced at first, and it took years for the government to successfully use the legislation to break up major trusts and monopolies. Initially, many courts were hesitant to apply the law and it was not until the 1904 Supreme Court case of Northern Securities Co. v. United States that the Act was used to break up a major trust.