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Period 6: 1865-1898, Topic 12- Controversies over the role of government in the Gilded Age Student Learning Objective - Explain the continuities and changes in the role of government in the US economy. Historical developments: Laissez-Faire capitalism supporters ask for no government intervention in the economy Labor strife at times saw government intervention Sherman Anti-Trust Act- government intervention Foreign policy makers look outside US borders for opportunities “The necessities of our altered relationship to the Pacific Ocean [after the late 1840s] found expression in a comprehensive treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation with the sovereign kingdom of Hawaii. . . . “[The line] from San Francisco to Honolulu [in Hawaii] marks the natural limit of the ocean belt within which our trade with [eastern Asia] must flow. . . . When we survey the stupendous progress made by the western coast during the thirty years of its national life as a part of our dominion, . . . it is not