During the gilded age, how did the us congress act to regulate business practices? congress passed laws that supported laissez-faire policies to businesses grow. congress was concerned about workers, so they passed laws that guaranteed a minimum wage. congress did not pass laws that would control the growth of monopolies. congress passed laws that ensured workplace safety.

The right answer is Congress did not pass laws that would control the growth of monopolies.

The Gilded Age is known as the age that follows the Civil war from about 1870 to 1900 and comprehends a period of rapid growth and industrialization. In this period the government was dominated by unrestricted capitalism, an environment free of income taxes, fair regulators, and other restraints on the behavior of freewheeling entrepreneurs. Leading to rampant corruption, where the monopolists were working together with the state to make sure that Congress did not pass laws that would control the growth of their own monopolies.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion