Describe the impact of industrialization in the U.S. 1850-1910. Where the early industrialist Captains of Industry or Robber Barons. -Robber Barron: Used to describe a businessman that used ruthless business tactics to amass a huge personal wealth. -Captain of Industry: Used to describe to describe a businessman whose means of amassing their fortune contributes positively to the country in some way. Industrial Captain vs. Robber Barron In the late 1800’s and into the early 1900’s the United
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became the envy of the world‚ and America became a leading world power. They provided the public with products that were in high demand for reasonable prices‚ and opened their markets to countries overseas. Although many people believe the early industrialists were Robber Barons who exploited the poor‚ these great men were truly Captains of Industry who created new ways of doing business‚ and provided products and services to the public; moreover‚ they were generous philanthropists who contributed much
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audience’s egos‚ claiming that they are useful and necessary to the world; he sides with their struggles to find and maintain work. By bringing himself as a representative to the workers of the world‚ he creates a dichotomy between laborers and industrialists that will help back his arguments for the rest of his respective pieces‚ making the listeners more apt to agree with him. For example‚ he calls upon the “Brothers of the American Railway Union” ("Proclamation to the American Railway Union")‚ bringing
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efficiency. The magnificent flow of goods generated could be efficiently transported by freshly lain transcontinental railroads made of Bessemer steel. Presiding over these late nineteenth century developments was a new class of extremely wealthy industrialists‚ the main beneficiaries of the era’s prosperity. They dominated substantial sectors of the new economy such as steel‚ oil‚ banking‚ and rail transportation. While these individuals created and donated outstanding wealth‚ they also engineered one
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Choice: Circle the “letter” of the best answer. (2 points each) 1. Which social group uses advanced technology to grow crops? D a. industrialists b. foragers (hunters/gatherers) c. agriculturalists d. horticulturalists 2. Which social group (s) organize their lives around the lives of their animals? C a. foragers (hunters/gatherers) b. industrialists c. pastoralists d. a and c e. all of the above 3. Which social group is on the constant move for subsistence? C a. horticulturalists
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Was the big businessman a “Robber Baron” or a hero of industry? A “robber baron” was someone who employed any means necessary to enrich themselves at the expense of their competitors. Two big Businessman/ industrialists during the 1800’s-1900’s were John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. Each businessman contributed something during their lifetime that made people question whether or not they were Robber Barron’s or a hero of Industry. Did each of these businessmen fall into that category or
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Assignment Title: The Political Economy of Pakistan Submitted By: Ali Gohar Jamali Reg no: 0917104 Class: BS (SS)-7 Submitted to: Mr. Akbar Saeed Awan Subject: South Asian Studies Dated: 8th October‚ 2012 Introduction Economic and social outcomes in Pakistan have been a mixture of paradoxes since the country came into being. Pakistan‚ once a regional economic power in 1960’s could not realize its potential and fell behind its East Asian fellow countries. Politically‚ religious
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J.P Morgan J.P Morgan John Pierpont Morgan was born on the 17 April 1837 in Hartford Connecticut. He is one of America’s most famous businessman and his business and legacy still live on today. At the peak of his time he was worth 25 billion modern us dollars. J.P was born into a rich family as his millionaire father Junius made his fortune by investing other people’s money in stocks. His father taught him how to avoid risk at a young age by making handle a million dollars. Early life
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century‚ the nations of Europe saw an exponential growth in population‚ as pictured in Document 1. This population explosion put not only a strain on food sources‚ but it gave the industrialists the cheap labor source they needed to operate their factories. On the other hand‚ as a result of these growing industrialists and the migration of rural people to urban society‚ the profitability of the cottage industry decreased. This decrease in the cottage industry led to disintegration of the family unit
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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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