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    In a sense‚ Vanderbilt and Rockefeller are captains of the industry but only by using a capitalist approach with intensive labor. Using false hopes for the immigrants that wanted a better life. Feeding them lies and poor wages which explains their robber baron intent. These men upon lucky made their wealth. The fact is that these millionaires trapped people into the notion that American dream to work hard and you too can obtain wealth. Understanding that social Darwinism implements the survival of

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    The Capitalist of America during 1875-1900 controlled large businesses like steel making‚ oil production and the railroads making them some of the most powerful men in the world; the wealth was obtained by using child labor‚ trying to destroy the middle class and destroying all competition. John D. Rockefeller took advantage of children in his coal mines to by making them workers called breaker boys. Most breakers were 8-12 year old boys or old men who couldn’t do anything else. Breaker boys removed

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    John D. Rockefeller was a captain of industry who helped to make America strong. As much as a good as person he was‚ he was also a robber baron who used ruthless business practices to enrich himself. In 1839 – 1937‚ Rockefeller was a very important American industrialist‚ philanthropist and a founder of many important places. John D. Rockefellers’ business career was being the main founder and one of the chairmen of the Standard Oil Company. Rockefeller was an intellectual man in the organization

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    unless he is willing to climb a little”. Andrew Carnegie was believed to be a captain of industries. Carnegie grew up to be the wealthiest business men in America. Andrew Carnegie is and always will be a captain of industry. One of the reasons Andrew Carnegie is a captain of industry is because he is the one that gave many people jobs when they needed it . Another reason Andrew Carnegie was a captain of industry is because he donated to charity $5 million. Carnegie had built plants around

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    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

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    Issue IV Summary (YES) Were Workers in the Gilded Age Conservative Capitalists? Author: Carl Degler Author Background: Carl Degler is a professor of American History at Stanford University. He is the former president of the American History Society and the Organization of American Historians. He is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history. Thesis: America’s labor movement willfully accepted capitalism and acted conservatively to radical organizational changes in the economic system by corporations

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    The Baron and His Baroness Before he left for a visit to his outlying districts‚ the jealous Baron warned his pretty wife‚ “Don’t leave the castle while I am gone‚ or I will punish you severely when I return!” But as the hours passed‚ the young Baroness grew lonely‚ and despite her husband’s warning decided to visit her lover who lived in the countryside nearby. The castle was located on an island in a wide‚ fast-flowing river‚ with a drawbridge linking the island to land at the narrowest point

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    international relations. Now states are struggling to gain more and more economic power. This economic power is related to their social‚ political as well as technological development. However‚ the means to develop economically with a faster speed is the capitalist ideology. Capitalism is commonly understood to mean an economic system in which the means of production are predominantly privately owned and operated for profit‚ often through the employment of labour. Money mediates the distribution and exchange

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    John D Rockefeller‚ founder of standard oil was a captain of industry‚ he was led to the path of efficiency through his mother and father when he was younger; this helped him grow into one of the biggest companies of the time. He soon started Standard Oil and became a billionaire. Despite the robber barren ways he got to the top‚ he got there and set a way for American corporations of the future. His father started him on the road to business‚ when John D Rockefeller was seven his father loaned

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    Andrew Carnegie: The Charitable Captain of Industry During the time period after the Civil War and nearing the twentieth century‚ America’s economy was in prime position to be molded – all America needed was someone to come along to mold it. Businesspersons like Cornelius Vanderbilt and entrepreneurs like John D. Rockefeller were prime examples of exactly whom America needed to take charge of the economy at this time; however‚ there was one man who was not only a self-made steel tycoon and one of

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