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Video: The Rockefeller Dynasty

1)How is Rockefeller described?
2)What did their name become associated with?
3)What is it associated with now?
4)What would be the first to do?
5)What did his name mean? Later?
6)What happens in 1859?
7)What product was refined from this and what would it be used for?
8)What would happen to oil prices? Why?
9)What kind of family did Rockefeller come from?
10)Why would his produce business be a success?
11)What does he do in 1865?
12)Why did he want a large refinery?
13)Howdid it grow?
14)What else could his oil products be used for?
15)What did he do in 1870?
16)What did it do?
17)Who were his most important deals with?
18)What was he able to get from them?
19)What was the drawback system?
20)What was the situation by the early 1880s?
21)What were his business practices?
22)What did he do with his competitors?
23)Why did he have the advantage?
24)Who did he marry and what kind of life did they have?
25)What were his views on religion and wealth?
26)What does he do in 1882?
27)How is New York City described in this time?
28)What are some institutions that he gives his money to?
29)What are his motives?
30)How did the political cartoonists portray him?
31)How was he viewed by the public?
32)Who was Ida Tarbell and what did she do?
33)How is Roosevelt described?
34)What does he do?
35)What finally happens in 1909?
36)How was it viewed at the time?
37)What happens to Standard Oil?
38)How does Rockefeller actually view it?
39)What two major changes in America affect his companies?
40)How rich and poweful would he be in 1911?
41)What does he decide to do about his public image?
42)How is this done?
43)What would Rockefeller be known for?
44)What would be Jr’s experience working for his father?
45)What happens to him in 1904?
46)What does he decide to do after his trip to Europe?
47)How is the Rockefeller estate on the Hudson River described?
48)What happens in 1913?
49)Why did the miners go on strike and what did they want?
50)What did the company do to resist this?
51)Whathappens next?
52)How does Jr. handle it?


53)How is the first 100 years of American business described?
54)What kinds of projects does Jr. contribute to?
55)What would the crown jewel of the Rockefeller empire?
56)What does he do in 1946?
57)What does his wife help create and support?
58)What kinds of projects do their children support?
59)What are their political experiences? Business ventures?

60)What is their net worth in the mid 1990s?

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