History of the United States II / Unit 3 USH2 0313 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Rockefeller and Standard Oil
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The idea
John D. Rockefeller, born in eighteen thirty-nine to modest means, founded the Standard Oil Company of Ohio in eighteen seventy, valued at one million dollars.
In practice
Standard Oil controlling nearly ninety-five percent of the country's oil refining by eighteen seventy-nine.
Where people slip
It also held ninety percent of refining worldwide, the anchor says. He grew by two strategies the next entries separate.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
- Nothing. This is a starting point.
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