Tell whether the statement is true or false. strong corporations were prevented in the early 1900s from becoming monopolies.

It is false that strong corporations were prevented in the early 1900s from becoming monopolies.
In fact, they were encouraged to become ones. 

Manchester began expanding "at an astonishing rate" around the turn of the 19th century as part of a process of unplanned urbanisation brought on by a boom in textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution. The transformation took little more than a century.