WEB PROJECT:

SECTION ONE (40 POINTS):

1. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/sfeature/sf_3.html Click on “How does Rockefeller’s dominance compare to companies today?”  Watch it or read the transcript.  Are any companies today as dominant as Standard Oil was? 
2. Go back and click on “Do mergers occur in the same way today as they did then?”  Are mergers as subtle today?
3. Go back and click on “Was Rockefeller’s monopoly necessary?”  In Krugman’s opinion, were there any gains to be had by having a unified oil industry in 1885?
4. Go back and click on “Do you see a comparison with how Rockefeller and Gates leveraged their power?” How did Bill Gates leverage his company into other businesses?
5. Go back and click on “Who are the new robber barons?”  Finish this sentence “A kinder, __________ robber baron.”
6. Go back and click on “Rockefeller was a case study in developing antitrust laws.”  Summarize the conditions between the regulators and the businessmen in the 1980s as described by Krugman.
7. Go back and click on “What is Rockefeller’s current status among experts?”.  Which two men are the “spiritual descendants of John D. Rockefeller”?
8. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/maps/index.html How much did Rockefeller give away in his lifetime?

SECTION TWO: (35 points)

9. http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/rockefeller/bio3.htm What was one of the MAJOR reasons for the choice of the university at Chicago? (5 points)
10. Do you feel Rockefeller’s charity “made up” for the monopolistic pricing? (15 points)
11. http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1078.html Do you agree or disagree?  Why? (15 points)

SECTION THREE: (25 points)

12. TRACE THE EXXON-MOBIL CORPORATION FROM ITS ROOTS IN STANDARD OIL. (15 points)
13. Go to http://news.google.com and type in John D. Rockefeller.  Summarize the article you got. (10 points)