Beginning in the 1660s, wealthy Virginia tobacco planters bought;
D. most of the good farmland near the coast
John D. Rockefeller, he created Standard oil and used a system of horizontal integration, which really hurt the consumer but it made him rich. He was basically a terrible person but a genius businessman (he would have been a trillionaire by today's standards) :)
Part of socialism was to remove the class structure and to improve conditions of factory workers. During this time (especially in Russia) workers did not have good working conditions, so the workers accepted socialism as it would increase their conditions.
