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National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Power: Taming the Octopus: Standard Oil

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Excerpt from Ida Tarbell's magazine expose of Standard Oil's manipulation of the American oil industry contrasted with excerpts from John D. Rockefeller's autobiography in which he defends the practices of his company.

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Concepts
john d. rockefeller
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Additional Tags
anti-trust, ida tarbell, nhc toolbox: power: taming the octopus: standard oil, standard oil company, standard oil company and trust
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
Common Core
RH.6-8.9