Read the excerpt from Ida Tarbell's The History of the
Standard Oil Company:
"He [Rockefeller] meant to control the oil business. By
one maneuver, and that a discredited one, he had
obtained control of one-fifth of the entire refining output of
the United States. He meant to secure the other four-
fifths. He might retire now, but the oil region would hear
of him again. It did. Three months later, in August, 1872,
it was learned that the scheme of consolidation which
had been presented in vain at Titusville in May had been
quietly carried out, that four-fifths of the refining interests
of the United States... had gone into a National
Refiners' Association, of which Mr. Rockefeller was
president."
Hda M. Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil
Company
What is Tarbell accusing Rockefeller of doing?
O ignoring the Sherman Act
O trying to create a monopoly
O price-fixing
O stealing oil