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Digital History: John D. Rockefeller in Cleveland [Pdf]

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John D. Rockefeller was a determined (some would say ruthless) businessman, who managed to gain control of all the oil refineries in Cleveland by 1872. Read about how he expanded his business while putting others out of business. [pdf]

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john d. rockefeller
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Additional Tags
horizontal integration, oil monopoly, oil refining, rate wars, rebates, digital history, south improvement company, standard oil, standard oil company and trust, monopoly
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information
Common Core
RH.6-8.9