John D. Rockefeller Monster Monopolist or Marketplace Hero

J.P. Morgan was considered by many a robber baron, and there are many reasons for this. Pierpont was the richest man in the world in the early nineteenth century, he got to that position by doing things that nowadays would be considered as shady. He owned the biggest monopolistic business ever owned, that means that

     True, Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller may have been the most influential businessmen of the 19th century, but was the way they conducted business proper? To fully answer this question, we must look at the following: First understand how Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller changed the market of their industries. Second, look at the similarities and differences in how both men achieved domination. Third and lastly, Look at how both men treated their workers and customers in order achieve the most possible profit for their company.

John D. Rockefeller Senior is one of the most famous industrialists to date. His fame is well deserved, through decades of hard work that brought prosperity to the American petroleum industry. Rockefeller has been called philanthropist, "great man" 1 "industrial statesman…, robber baron" , thief and other titles of both pleasant and unpleasant nature. His ways of conducting business brought him fame, fortune, and a lawsuit that broke up the Standard Oil Company. Despite these questionable business practices, John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company greatly contributed to the economy, and the well-being of the United States and its people. "The life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., was marked to an exceptional degree by silence,

Every decent argument is backed by evidence. In “The Naked Source,” Linda Simon argues that students should learn history by interpreting primary sources. Simon supports her argument that students should confront primary sources to better learn history by using ethos, logos, structure, and tone.

John D. Rockefeller started the United States’ first monopoly. Rockefeller is recorded as the seventh wealthiest person to ever live on Earth. Rockefeller used his huge amount of money to donate to many various philanthropic causes. He started his oil company in 1870 buying out many other competitors along the way. By 1882, Rockefeller had a monopoly and had control over 90% of the United States’ oil refineries.

Carnegie, Rockefeller, and JP Morgan really are Robber barons because of what they have done to their workers including the conditions they were kept in. More evidence is that Andrew Carnegie is a Robber baron because he decreased his workers salary by 33% because his workers wanted coal and food in the winter. They asked for these things because they were starving and close to freezing to death, they needed help but they were too greedy to help them, but when they did help their workers they decreased salary or made them work longer to get the money back that they “wasted” on the workers who cared enough to help them in the beginning. But I have a couple extra examples to support my claim. J. P. Morgan is also a Robber Baron because of the

George Eastman and John D. Rockefeller were both captains of industry due to being philanthropists and innovators. George Eastman was an innovator by reinventing how people can take pictures. Before Eastman recreated the camera it was expensive, timely, and very bulky. Only rich people could afford camera equimpment and it was hard to bring anywhere because of how heavy it was. After Eastman’s new camera came out almost everyone could afford one, it was lighter, and much faster. More companies started to get into the camera business and more people became interested in photography. John Rockefeller was an innovator because he made oil a more usable resource. For example oil could now be used for cars and other machines instead of coal, because of this whales stopped getting hunted for whale oil.

Analyze these documents in pairs. You can use their textbooks and/or the power point we used in class to help build their understanding of the material. You should write a thesis statement, intro paragraph and outline a proposed answer. The outline should indicate how you would use the documents to support their argument.

Rockefeller was an intelligent man who sought for better means in order to increase productivity. He used the opportunities of the time to take advantage of a free system. One of his best characteristics was that he lowered the cost of oil across the word by his largest scale production. To see that his oil was top quality at minimum cost he also hired specialist managers, this was a revolutionary concept at the time.

Rockefeller. A picture in my history book shows a group of people watching an old Rockefeller crouch over to accept a flower from a little girl. The caption reads "John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist, is caught doing one of his good deeds."

Write a coherent essay that integrates your interpretation of Documents A–H and your knowledge of the period to answer the following question:

It’s useful to identify and agree a source to use when researching information, as a standardised method means more uniform work. All information would be in a similar format when gathered from one source, but

[Oil production has jumped from 5.0 million barrels per day in 2008 to 7.4 million last year and is expected to average 8.5 million this year and 9.3 million next year, according to the EIA, the analytical arm of the Department of Energy.” (Koch par. 2)]

Days earlier, Citizens for Rockefeller, a political action group spearheading the draft Rockefeller campaign, made a newspaper and television appeal to voters that brought in over a million pieces of mail and telegrams to the Chicago convention along with a flood of telephone calls overwhelming the mail delivery services around the city. People demanded that Rockefeller be placed on the ballot for president. Throughout the election cycle, Rockefeller remained coy about the nomination, never fading too far out of focus.

Throughout its history, California has been seen as a place of great racial and ethnic diversity, a place that people would relocate to so that they may start over, or strike it rich, or better their health and their overall well-being. California during the twentieth century was not much different; the population grew at an extremely rapid pace, natural resources became scarce, and tensions between different classes and races began to become stronger and more intense. Government induced racial tensions along with the movement through the Progressive Era and various types of immigrant, social, and racial reforms along with the Civil Rights Movement have all culminated to create the diverse and still at some times tense racial make-up for which California is known; California is made up of a variety of people, for the purposes of this paper, the discussion will focus on Mexican-Americans, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and Anglo-Americans all living in California throughout the twentieth century. Discrimination is not always based on a person’s racial make-up, factors such as gender, economic status, class and other social concerns as well as race play an important role in the discrimination of different groups of people. What this paper will argue is that the discussion of discrimination cannot be debated unless all of these factors are present when concerning the history of California and the