The name of Rockefeller's trust was the Standard Oil Trust. Established in 1882, it was a conglomerate that controlled a vast majority of the oil industry in the United States. The trust's practices eventually led to significant antitrust litigation, culminating in the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in 1911 to break it up into several smaller companies.
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