This episode in the men who built america spoke mainly of some of the richest people in the world’s history Carnegie‚ Rockefeller‚ Morgan‚ and Ford all americans and all in the same relative time period. It covers what each of these remarkable individuals did that affected america from ford’s assembly line to the buying of the presidency. But it did not just cover what effects their actions had on america it covered their motivations and what may have inspired them to be so successful. All of them
Premium United States John D. Rockefeller Wealth
hardships in their lives. They all had mentors who helped them become the businessmen they had become. Money did not buy John D. Rockefeller‚ Andrew Carnegie‚ and John P. Morgan Jr. individual or collective happiness. John D. Rockefeller did not want anyone to be above him or to beat him in the competition between the founders of the industrial economy. Rockefeller view of his life changed when the train he was suppose to be on crashes and kills everybody on board. He was suppose to be on
Premium Happiness Wealth Andrew Carnegie
-Settlement Houses: example: Hull House -Poverty was a huge issue in the city -Robber Barons were attacked very much‚ but believed that they had a commandment from God to help the poor (THE GOSPEL OF WEALTH) -The downside of this is that they actually blamed the poor for their condition -The Robber Barons believed the poor could not help themselves -Salvation army was established in the US in 1879 -Many reformers want to fight this wide
Premium American Civil War Abraham Lincoln Confederate States of America
Sheila Joseph DNY Leadership Assignment November 10‚ 2010 Great Leaders in the History of New York “The very essence of leadership is its purpose. And the purpose of leadership is to accomplish a task. That is what leadership does-and what it does is more important than what it is or how it works.” This quote by Colonel Dandridge M. Malone‚ shows that leadership needs to be focused on what it accomplishes instead of just being leadership for leadership’s sake. To me‚ a leader is simply
Premium Leadership
Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller were captains of industries. They helped America become what it is today. They developed company’s and industries that impacted the 20th and the 21st Century in such a way that it changed our ideas of management and supply and demand. Though they may have paid their "help" low wages‚ at the time they thought that it was a fair amount. They provided an outlook of industries that were almost unheard of in that time. Though many might have seen Rockefeller
Free Andrew Carnegie John D. Rockefeller
Problems such as; transportation was severely lacking‚ and the country did not have a strong form of energy to light the streets. The men who brought America out of its “Civil War slump”‚ have great influences modern America. Andrew Carnegie is just one example. Carnegie provided the
Premium Gilded Age United States American Civil War
Points) What happened in Haymarket Square on May 1‚ 1886? What happened on May 4? Who was convicted in the trial? What did Governor Altgeld do in 1893? (Four points) What was the Homestead Lockout? What did Alexander Berkman do? What did Carnegie do? (Three points) Why did Pullman workers go on strike in 1895? What happened when Railroad workers went on a sympathy strike? What did President Cleveland do? How were the careers of Eugene Debs and Clarence Darrow affected? (Five points)
Premium Woodrow Wilson Theodore Roosevelt History of the United States
student to shy away from the reading. It may seem like a good idea‚ but the narrator of the documentary " The Men Who Built America" is very biased towards the characters by describing them as greedy and selfish. on the other hand‚ the article "Robber Barons and Rebels doesn’t give a description of the characters who took part during the birth of capitalism in America. Instead‚ the Zinn Article gives the reader facts
Premium United States World War II Education
These four men‚ George Eastman‚ J.P. Morgan‚ John Rockefeller‚ and Andrew Carnegie were all Captains of Industry. They are all considered Captains of Industry because they all donated huge portions of their wealth to society. George Eastman treated his workers with respect and dignity‚ giving them fair pay‚ reasonable hours‚ and the best benefits he could manage‚ as the writer states. Both the reading and the website show examples of the places he donated to‚ such as large sums of his money to children’s
Premium Management Leadership United States
competition‚ and there are those that disagree with “Survival of the Fittest” because it is used to describe a dreadful time in American history and does not take into account how not everyone has equal opportunity in America. John D. Rockefeller was one of these robber barons‚ and he used “Survival of the Fittest” to justify his monopolization of the oil industry. “Social scientists have long understood that one’s economic status in society is not a function of one’s moral worth. It depends largely on
Premium Competition Social status Oprah Winfrey