Which of the following is NOT true about the history of the oil industry? Select the best answer from the choices provided. Uses
for oil were first discovered by the Nobel brothers. Oil has been pumped and used in small amounts since the Middle Ages. John D. Rockefeller established a monoply on oil refining in the U.S. The innovations of the Nobel brothers made them leaders of oil extraction, refining, and oil marketing, allowing oil to reach consumers cheaply and in large quantities. NextReset
The statement which makes the oil history incorrect among the choices is the second statement which is "Oil has been pumped and used in small amount since the Middle Ages". This is not true, many oils industries pump billions of tons of oil and support a lot of consumers in their region. It was the Nobel brothers who contributed a lot in discovering oils and John D. Rockefeller is one of the guys who became very rich because of oil businesses.
That many Americans were desperately poor around the turn of the 20th century. The Social Gospel movement emerged among Protestant Christians to improve the economic, moral and social conditions of the urban working class.
Millions of Africans were torn from their homes, deported to the American continent and sold as slaves. The transatlantic slave trade are often known as the triangular trade
Europeans mainly wanted a sea route to Asia for trade. Their difficulties include a very limited understanding of the Americas (they didn’t even know such place existed) and Far East, and they did not know the cure for scurvy
