The next major industrial impact on the americas was from John D Rockefeller. Although the ways he started and thrived with his company was ruthless and relentless with him making his company a major and one of the first ever monopolies. Because of those actions one may refer to him as a robber baron but because of his major impact on american industry he is a captain of industry. The way Rockefeller impacted american was like never seen before. He took a struggling just staring america and turned it into one of the biggest industrial countries. At his time Rockefeller supplied the most common source of light at the time called kerosene. He started of a struggling businessman trying to put his name out in the kerosene business. Early in his