Rockefeller: Not a businessman but a business, man by Caitlin O'Rourke https://padlet.com/caitlinor/zq1cxnfocq2y Post a summary of your article here (along with group member names and the article title) en-us 2019-03-12 15:05:52 UTC 2025-12-23 16:13:15 UTC hello@padlet.com Ida M. Tarbell: “The Oil War of 1872,” 1903---Ella, Nick T, Oliver, Elizabeth, Viviana https://padlet.com/caitlinor/zq1cxnfocq2y/wish/340566198 The author is the daughter of a man who put out of business because of Rockefeller. In this article, the author says he is an intelligent and powerful man. She respects him as a businessman, but also recognizes that some of his business practices are unjust.
"No man in the trade shall make a dollar this year. We propose so manipulating the market as to run the price of crude on the Creek as low as two and a half. We mean to show the world that the South Improvement Company was organized for business and means business in spite of opposition. The same thing has been said in substance by the leading Philadelphia member.”]]> 2019-03-12 18:12:35 UTC https://padlet.com/caitlinor/zq1cxnfocq2y/wish/340566198 John D. Rockefeller: The Success of the Standard Oil Company https://padlet.com/caitlinor/zq1cxnfocq2y/wish/340569707 George, Jack, Timmy, Matthew, Nathan

Summary: The success of Standard Oil was due to its efficiency and modern technologies. It was efficient by seeking the best workers and best methods of manufacturing. It also sought the most strategic placement of manufactories. The company invested money to cheapen the process and distribution. They also saved money by building tanks at railroad stations in every part of the country. Rockefeller also protected the oil industry from the competition of other countries.

Perspective of the Author (John D. Rockefeller): He knows how to use his money and how to make his business efficient to earn more money. He thinks he made smart business decisions.

]]> 2019-03-12 18:19:16 UTC https://padlet.com/caitlinor/zq1cxnfocq2y/wish/340569707 The Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) https://padlet.com/caitlinor/zq1cxnfocq2y/wish/340571265 The Sherman Antitrust Act was an act that limited the actions of trusts in order to protect consumers and smaller businesses against large corporations with huge monopolies in the market. This puts Rockefeller in a negative light because this act was almost unanimously passed (51-1 in the Senate, 242-0 in the House) in order to prevent the economic malpractice that Rockefeller and his peers were participating in. This shows how much Rockefeller’s system was harming and slowly pushing the industry to ruin. Instead, this act protected the consumer from cheap, low-quality products and jacked-up prices by making sure companies would no longer monopolize markets through trusts.]]> 2019-03-12 18:22:03 UTC https://padlet.com/caitlinor/zq1cxnfocq2y/wish/340571265 Rockefeller Foundation Natalya Rosenberg Danielle Nicolazzo Lilly Yang-Schmidt Samantha Cao Erica Bock https://padlet.com/caitlinor/zq1cxnfocq2y/wish/340572557 In this article, by Fred Beuttler, the author paints Rockefeller in a charitable light. He talks about the foundation that Rockefeller set up in 1913 to “promote the wellbeing of mankind throughout the world”.  The foundation supported multiple causes such as  “‘social hygiene,’ that is, issues of maternal health, sex education, and birth control” and “frequently worked in partnership with other foundations and agencies, in such fields as environmental affairs, race issues, conflict resolution, and the arts”. However, Rockefeller never once attended a board meeting once the Foundation was organized, showing that he might not have been genuinely invested in his foundation.

]]> 2019-03-12 18:24:21 UTC https://padlet.com/caitlinor/zq1cxnfocq2y/wish/340572557 Kevin D’Argento, Sarah Bottino, Christina Welsh, Joey Brown https://padlet.com/caitlinor/zq1cxnfocq2y/wish/340573231  Notes:
  • Rockefeller believed he was a good person and that he wasn’t doing anything wrong
  • Was a member of the Baptist church
  • Gave to the poor
  • Visited the sick in hospitals
  • Gave to charities that he believed were worthy of his donations
  • He went out of his way to obtain special and illegal privileges for his company
  • The way he got rebates could be considered unethical. He would often threaten and scare the railroad company’s into doing what he wants.
  • He knew rebates were wrong but he still did them anyway
  • He in self-denial;  convinced himself that he was doing good
  • The public saw him as a good person because of the way he presented himself by covering up his tracks well
  • Manipulated public opinion; only publicized the good parts of himself



Works Cited:
Tarbell, Ida M. "Ida M. Tarbell: “The Oil War of 1872,” 1903." Gale U.S. History in Context, Gale, 2015. U.S. History in Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/HBDHGX716892482/UHIC?u=mlin_m_nnorth&sid=UHIC&xid=9ce91ce2. Accessed 12 Mar. 2019.

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