What Provisions Did the Clayton Act Include to Clarify and Expand

question 2

Multiple Choice

What provisions did the Clayton Act include to clarify and expand upon the Sherman Antitrust Act?

• A) It created an organization to protect consumers and businesses from unfair competition.
• B) It limited mergers and acquisitions that have the potential to stifle competition.
• C) It provided specific exemptions to utility and other similar industries, which tend to have natural monopolies due to the exorbitant costs involved with starting up.
• D) The Clayton Act actually made most of the provisions of the Sherman Antitrust Act null and void rather than expanding on the earlier legislation.
• E) It specified that one person could be a member of only three boards of directors within the same industry.

---

Definitions:

Child Table

A table in a database that has a foreign key linking to the primary key of another table, known as the parent table.

Table Structure

The organization of data in rows and columns in a relational database or spreadsheet.

Append Query

A type of database query that adds the results of a query to an existing table without modifying the original data.

Update Query

A database operation that modifies the data in existing records based on specified criteria.