How did Sherman Antitrust Act harm businesses such as standard oil and tycoons like John D Rockefeller?

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Section 2 of the Act forbade monopoly. In Section 2 cases, the

court has, again on its own initiative, drawn a distinction between

coercive and innocent monopoly. The act is not meant to punish

businesses that come to dominate their market passively.

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