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Zinn Chapter 11 Analysis
AP United States History
7 January 2014
Period 4
Zinn Chapter 11
Manifest Destiny gave reason to go to the West for opportunists. The more common name for these opportunistic Americans were industrialists. These people came on the rise as Robber Barons. What would become household names were simply paving their ways towards success in these days. This brand of people became a part of American culture, forever changing it and embellishing their names within it, such as Rockefeller, Standford, Gould, Morgan, and Carnegie. These people carved out industrialization in the name of America through their immense fortunes in banking, coal, and oil. This would be the era of the establishment of the multinational corporation.
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