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Why was the Cleveland Massacre significant in the formation of Standard Oil?

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Answered by bhardwajram
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He thought he could help the company become profitable. Why was the Cleveland Massacre significant in the formation of Standard Oil? Standard Oil significantly improved its business practices after the Cleveland Massacre. Standard Oil was bought out by other Cleveland companies after the Massacre.

Answered by smartbrainz
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'Standard Oil' became a 'monopoly in the Cleveland oil' market after the Massacre.

EXPLANATION:

The Cleveland Massacre indicates 3 month period in the year 1872 when Standard Oil Company acquired virtually all its competing (rivals) oil refineries in Cleveland, Ohio. Standard Oil was purchased by 22 of 26 competing refineries at highly discounted rates for a six-week period of February and March 1872. The Cleveland Massacre was the start of the movement toward an oil monopoly by John D. 'Rockefeller’s drive' toward an 'oil monopoly', and it is considered one of his 'shrewdest operations'.

It really does illustrate just how concentrated and cynical Rockefeller might be that he launched his campaign in the midst of its worst-case business (the collapse of the famed South Improvement Company). To gain huge levers in making smaller petrol refineries, Rockefeller used South Improvement Company to enter or to purchase the petroleum company. Rockefeller's second plan was to dominate the 'United States' of America's oil market with the Cleveland Massacre. Several oil refinery firms operated in the early 1870s in the oil regions of Pennsylvania. The massive black oil market made prices unpredictable. Many firms were ready to pay unprofitable rates only for a competitive edge.

He had the idea that competition should be stopped in order to realize the full potential of oil. He therefore regarded Standard Oil as the means of uniting the entire oil refining market. The expansionist policy of Rockefeller continued after the Cleveland massacre. Refineries in New York, Pittsburgh,  and New Jersey were taken over by the Standard Oil company.. All 53 refineries were Standard Oil refined. He closed 22 unprofitable refurbishments with Rockefeller's eyes for performance. In 1880, 80% of the North American oil market had been under management of Standard Oil. The massacre of Cleveland established John Rockefeller's empire. Until 1911 Standard Oil retained its control of the oil industry.

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