Big Business post civil war
By Harley Rushing
Business
Companies would become corporations. These corporations would have stocks where the public could invest into the corporation. The people that had stocks in these corporation were share holders
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller was born in 1839 in Richford NY
He built his oil empire by Horizontal integration.
He increased his control of the oil company by trust with other companies.
Restrictions
In 1890 congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act that outlawed monopoly. However the law did not define a monopoly