John D. Rockerfeller's Oil Industry: Robber Baron

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Rockerfellers was an industry in which he worked hard for his money.. He did his part of the work to get up to how he was. He was the richest person. He was not a bad person, he did what he had to do to succeed in a tough industry. He used a scheme to persuade other cleveland companies to sell out the standard oil. Which is known as the “Cleveland Massacre”. When the war came it wiped out most of the oil supply, so he had to redo the process described earlier which enables him to own more than half the active oil companies in the US. John D. Rockefeller is considered a Robber Baron because he created the largest company and most profitable company in the United States at the

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