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Digital History: Rockefeller's Millions [Pdf]

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With the discovery of oil in Pennsylvania in the mid 1800s brought a boom to the economy. Read about the beginning of the oil industry, and particularly, John D. Rockefeller's role in it. See how his control of many parts of the drilling, production, and refining of oil made him millions. [pdf]

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Concepts
john d. rockefeller
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Additional Tags
age of big business, horizontal monopoly, oil industry, vertical monopoly, digital history, standard oil, business monopolies
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (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