Captains of Industry Since the time of its birth‚ the United States has been a democracy that was pieced together by the beliefs and ideas of different people. This has resulted in a system in which nothing can be classified as “black or white” and there are many areas of gray. Therefore‚ it is difficult to label anything as a singular extreme. This is the case for the leaders of the industrial period. While they made unusual advancements that greatly helped the public‚ they also caused many problems
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industrialists of this time that I researched were Andrew Carnegie‚ Jay Gould‚ Cornelius Vanderbilt‚ and John D. Rockefeller. Out these four industrialists the only one that is a Captain of Industry in my opinion is Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie proved that he was a Captain of Industry in many ways by building the largest steel industry of his time‚ donating his fortune to fund libraries‚ and by founding and constructing many buildings; including the Carnegie hall in New York City. He also created a pension
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Gospel of Wealth Debate Julian Yearwood Was Andrew Carnegie’s “Gospel of Wealth “ a useful response to great disparities in wealth created by the rise of industry and economic growth in the United States during the Gilded Age? Introduction: Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish Immigrant‚ who came to the US at age 13. He went from being a factory worker to working his way up the ladder at the telegraph company. He founded the Pittsburg Carnegie Steel Company‚ which he sold to JP Morgan in 1901
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success combined their business into massive corporations. Vertical and horizontal integration were tactics used to make business grow faster. Vertical integration is the acquiring of material from the bottom up for means of production‚ for example Carnegie used this strategy. Horizontal integration is the controlling of other companies that produce the same product‚ which Rockefeller used. The corporations were so large that they could and some did‚ force out the competition which resulted them in
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During the latter part of the nineteenth century‚ industries began to bloom across the United States. Local businesses and merchants gave way to larger corporations and industries. The head of these industries‚ such as the names of Rockefeller‚ Carnegie‚ and J.P. Morgan‚ were looked upon as robber barons by some‚ industrial innovators by others. A baron is "one having great wealth‚ power‚ and influence in a specified sphere of activity: an oil baron." Therefore the robber barons that these men were
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wealth I also believe that some of these men meant well and deserve the title of Captain of Industry. One of the captains of industry of 19th century America‚ Andrew Carnegie helped build the formidable American steel industry‚ a process that turned a poor young man into one of the richest entrepreneurs of his age. Later in his life‚ Carnegie sold his steel business
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railroad thrived. It was now possible for goods and people to travel from New York to LA in less than a week. It helped spur larger more spread out cities and towns and during the civil war helped to end it. Andrew Carnegie was the man mostly responsible for this amazing feat across the country. Carnegie was one of the largest steel producers in the world. He was responsible for building the tracks that would shape the nation. Along with the discovery of oil it was possible to take it to different parts
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to a huge company. Another example would be Thomas Edison’s light bulb and many other inventions which led to his finding of Menlo Park Laboratory. An additional cause was the rise of big business leaders such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. Andrew Carnegie built the Carnegie Steel mill from nothing while Rockefeller led the oil companies. With the rise of industrial America‚ came many benefits to the American people. Due to the rise of many big companies‚ many earned jobs. There was
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Cudgel 1 Carnegie Generosity to Society Was Andrew Carnegie’s amazing rags to riches story and unheard-of devotion to charity made him the perfect poster boy for the Industrial Revolution and today’s Society. Andrew Carnegie was an American industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry then became a major philanthropist. Carnegie “was often noted as saying the man who dies rich dies disgraced”‚ (Carnegie) the” Gospel of Wealth” 1900 influence him to give to different mode
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pace. With recent advancements in technology to spur industrial growth‚ the government had no rulings on how far in big business is too far. The four main business leaders of the time: Cornelius Vanderbilt‚ John D. Rockefeller‚ J. P. Morgan‚ and Andrew Carnegie. These men were at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution in America and the ways that they reached their levels of wealth were sometimes questionable and other times outright unethical. In the early days of business in America‚ there was
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