| John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie were both one the most successful industrialists of their time. Oil and Steel were the top manufacturing companies in the 19th century |
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 | I Discovered the first Oil Company! | |
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| I created the Steel Industry! | |
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| Rockefeller was the first to see the importance of oil and how it would benefit America. He invested a large portion of his own savings into petroleum. Rockefeller gained so much control that he was able to fix the prices to his liking and rid competitors. |
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| Oil will benefit America and I'm going to make sure of it. | |
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| Carnegie started out working with railroads and with that he noticed steel played a big part of building railroads. He fopunded his first steel company in Pittsburg and became successful making a vast amount of it and selling it for railroads, steam locomotives, bridges, and manufacturing machines. |
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| Steel is the strongest, most durable material of the 19th century and I will succeed in letting it be known. | |
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