John D. Rockefeller

One word that describes John D. Rockefeller is the word shark. This describes Rockefeller because he brought in new ideas in running a company during the second industrial revolution. Rockefeller also took competition out of his business plans, which makes him a shark in the business world. John D. Rockefeller was interested in business at a young age. A neighboring farmer one day asked for the money Rockefeller made when he was selling his chickens. The farmer promised to pay him back and add…

and John D. Rockefeller, the episode talked about how they changed America and made the "American Dream." The show talks about how Cornelius Vanderbilt made transportation easier, by expanding,owning, and controlling the railroads of the U.S, and how John D. Rockefeller had the oil to fuel the trains, and even give people light. Cornelius Vanderbilt was the owner of most of the railroads of America, at the time, and he needed someone to provide oil for all his trains. John D. Rockefeller…

John D. Rockefeller was born on July 8. 1839 in Richford, New York. His father William Avery Rockefeller, was a “pitch man”-- a “doctor” who claimed he could cure cancer and charged up to $25 per “treatment.” His dad was gone from month to month traveling around the West from town to town and would return to wherever the family was living with substantial sums of cash. His mother Eliza Davison Rockefeller, was very religious and disciplined. She raised John to work, save and give to charities.…

John D. Rockefeller is the poster child for the American dream. He worked himself from the bottom of the monetary food chain to the top. Rockefeller believed in hard and honest work and hated when anything went to waste. This is why when he saw oil being drilled and wasted through inefficiency, he saw an opportunity. Rockefeller then started his own company and the rest is history. He became one of the first multimillionaires in the United States of America through his business and talent.…

John D. Rockefeller was one of the richest men in the world in the late 1800s and the early 1900s. He is known for his very successful oil industry which we know as Standard Oil today. He was a very influential person back in his time and he still is today. Now the question is, was John Rockefeller a robber baron or a captain of industry? John Rockefeller was born on July 8th, 1839 in Richford, New York. His mother was a religious and disciplined woman and his father was a ¨pitchman¨. As a…

of both of them intrigued the attention of major business tycoons. John D. Rockefeller was one of them. His creation, the Standard Oil, controlled 90% of the refined oil production in the USA in 1900 (“John D Rockefeller and the standard”). He received a good education during his young life span. He acquired his first job as a clerk when he was 16 years…

“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn accepted success.” -John D. Rockefeller While searching the internet in search for our History Day topic we came across the Industrial Revolution and soon found that the Industrial Revolution had a lot of dependable sources to choose and pick from, making it a felicitous topic for our project . When suggesting if the Industrial Revolution was a good theme to surround our project on our teacher…

John D Rockefeller and George Eastman were captains of industry because they were innovators and and philanthropists. Rockefeller introduced new techniques that reshaped the oil industry. Rockefeller used kerosene instead of throwing it out. He sold sold byproduct paraffin to candlemakers, and other byproduct petroleum jelly to medical supply companies. He also used it to pave roads. Rockefeller was able to come up with a way to use something that others saw as waste, when he saw it as gold. The…

John D. Rockefeller was born July 8, 1839 and was very serious minded and religious. Early in his life he decided he wanted to start a business career so him and his friend went into the trading business. Later on in 1867 Rockefeller entered the oil business. Rockefellers actions in the oil business showed he was a captain of industry. Rockefellers actions showed he was a captain of industry in many ways. Rockefeller helped his country by selling kerosene which helps heal certain…

run by John D. Rockefeller. Rockefeller became one of the richest and most powerful men in America. Rockefeller tried to get Standard Oil to be the only supplier of oil in North America. Rockefeller believed that he could operate his company around the regulations set by the United States Government, and that he could get away with it. “President Roosevelt said confidently that no man, no matter how powerful was above the law (“The Trust Buster”). President Roosevelt shutdown Rockefeller and…