dispute over how these individuals should be portrayed. Some people say that they were robber barons‚ while others insist that they were captains of industry. A captain of industry is someone who is perceived to have helped the nation through their business skills and their philanthropy. On the other hand‚ a robber baron was someone who was considered a ruthless businessman. In the public’s opinion a robber baron wouldn’t let anything stop them from obtaining wealth. In my opinion Rockefeller and Carnegie
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• CHAPTER I 1. According to Zinn‚ what is his main purpose for writing A People’s History of the United States? 2. What is Zinn’s thesis for pages 1-11? 3. According to Zinn‚ how is Columbus portrayed in traditional history books? 4. Why does Zinn dispute Henry Kissinger’s statement: “History is the memory of states?” 5. Identify one early and one subsequent motive that drove Columbus to oppress indigenous peoples. 6. What was the ultimate fate of the Arawak Indians? 7. What were the major causes
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big businesses were rising and along with them technological progress and a lower cost of living; this is the gold plating. Also during this time‚ corruption was running rampant and poor workers were exploited in order to produce more for their robber baron bosses; this is the gold layer peeled back. Big businesses played a massive role in the economy and politics during the gilded age‚ as the trusts made the U.S. into a manufacturing powerhouse and they corrupted politicians into not acting on injustices
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he never took advantage of the government like the way that John D. Rockefeller did. Rockefeller took great advantage of the unfair ways that the government influenced him. Many people would look at Rockefeller and automatically say that he is a Robber Baron since he always was so care less about anything and everyone else. He made profit out of other people’s work using horizontal integration because he put about four of his thirty competitors out of business. Eventually his industry grew stronger
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men‚ John D. Rockefeller‚ Andrew Carnegie‚ and J.P. Morgan‚ were seen as robber barons BUT they were also seen as industrial statesmen. Robber baron was a term given to the rich who would pretty much do anything for money whether that meant the jeopardy of workers’ lives and crooked business practices. John D. Rockefeller started a standard oil company and was the first American billionaire. John R. was considered a robber baron mainly because he used his insight of business to ruthlessly force other
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between 1875 and 1900‚ the intention with which they did so has been a topic of dispute. While some historians described these capitalists as “captains of industry” others believed they were better described as “robber barons”. Of these two characterizations‚ the title of “robber barons” was more appropriate as most of them gained their wealth and power by fraudulent means — defying government regulation‚ using ruthless business schemes
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What are robber barons? what did robber barons do during the railroad era? Robber Barons was the negative term for the titans of industry or‚ as Professor Donald Miller calls them‚ the capitalist conquistadors. These were the guys like Andrew Carnegie‚ Cornelius Vanderbilt‚ Gustavus Swift‚ Philip Armour‚ John D. Rockefeller and others who rose to the top and ran monopolies or near-monopolies in the Gilded Age (1870s-1900ish). They were seen as bad because they employed ruthless methods to run
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I. (Zinn‚ Howard. A People’s History of the United States. New York‚ New York: HarperCollins Publishers‚ 1980. Book. II. Howard Zinn‚ an American author‚ writer‚ and historian‚ was born in 1922 and died in 2012. He wrote a book calling for the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam in 1967 called Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal and was also opposed to the war in Iraq. The few topics Zinn’s work covered included civil rights and anti-war movments. III. History cannot be understood unless one looks at
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They created so many job opportunities‚ built industries that benefited the whole country and gave away much of their hard earned money. Capitalists of the nineteenth century may have been considered robber barons but they were for the most part captains of industry. The American Industrial Revolution fundamentally changed politics‚ society‚ and the economy. Factory workers and consumerism had changed immensely in the Gilded Age; about 400‚000 patents were made between 1875 and 1900 which signifies
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Who Were The Robber Barons?"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship." These words ring true in the ears of business owners and CEOs even today. Who was the man that spoke these words that still have thought and meaning today? Why‚ none other than John D. Rockefeller. Rockefeller was one of the many "robber barons" of the gilded age. In case you were wondering‚ a robber baron is a "ruthlessly powerful U.S. capitalist or industrialist of the late 19th century
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