The three 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
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15‚ 2001 The Rockefellers feared the temptations of wealth‚ yet a visitor once described their estate as the kind of place God would have built if only he’d had the money. They amassed a fortune that outraged a Democratic nation‚ then gave it all away reshaping America. They were the closest thing the country had to a royal family‚ but the Rockefellers shunned the public eye. For decades‚ the Rockefeller name was despised in America‚ associated with John D. Rockefeller Sr.’s feared monopoly
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Carnegie and Gates Running Head: Andrew Carnegie and Bill Gates‚ Philanthropists 1 Andrew Carnegie and Bill Gates‚ Philanthropists of Public Libraries in the United States Jennifer Finlay San Jose State University LIBR 200-04 December 4‚ 2005 Carnegie and Gates Abstract Andrew Carnegie and Bill Gates‚ major business leaders of their respective eras‚ had a major impact on public libraries in the United States through their philanthropic efforts. Carnegie funded a program at the beginning
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PRECIS #1: Nathan Barber Santa Margarita Catholic HS 1st Period-John Braithwaite-Instructor Were the Puritans Puritanical? By Carl Degler‚ Stanford University THESIS: Carl Degler‚ in this provocative article‚ takes issue with the popular notion that the Puritans were people who had “the haunting fear that someone‚ somewhere‚ may be happy” as advocated by Mencken‚ Macaulay‚ & Heffner who got it all wrong! They are not repressed sex misfits and bigots‚ but rather‚ keepers of the Victorian
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"Robber Barons" Long hours‚ dangerous work conditions‚ and low wages are just a few words to describe the treatment of workers at the turn of the 20th century. This was all in the hands of some powerful industrialist we refer to as "robber barons". There can be no mistaking their motives: wealth. It portrays men like Vanderbilt‚ Rockefeller‚ Pullman‚ Ford and cruel and ruthless businessmen who would stop at nothing to achieve great wealth.They cared little about the lives and treatment of those
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There was a lot of famous people in the 19th century‚ either by what they did or money wise‚ or both. However Andrew Carnegie‚ John D. Rockefeller‚ and Cornelius Vanderbilt were very famous during this time in industry. Therefore‚ they were very important people with money. Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25‚ 1835‚ in Dunfermline‚ Scotland. In 1848 moved to America in search of better opportunities. His education ended when they moved to America. He soon found a job as a bobbin boy at a cotton
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why Andrew carnage deserves that title of "Robber Baron" Carnigie grew up as a poor boy in scotland and moved to the states when he was 13 and started to work in a factory and worked his way up the ladder eventually to open his own company. which earned him a massive amout of wealth which he used dirty attics such as creating monopolies and putting others out of business and then raising prices. now how can you call this man a captain of industry when he put countless people out of business
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Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall‚ the famous concert hall in New York City‚ has again undergone a restoration. While this is not the first‚ it is the most extensive in the building’s history. As a result of new restoration‚ Carnegie Hall once again has the quality of sound that it had when it was first built. Carnegie Hall owes its existence to Andrew Carnegie‚ the wealthy owner of a steel company in the late 1800s. The hall was finished in 1891 and quickly gained a reputation as an excellent performing
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it is today. Cornelius Vanderbilt was the head of the railroad empire‚ John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil‚ Andrew Carnegie built an empire around steel‚ J.P. Morgan had lit up the world with electric light‚ Tom Scott was a great American businessman and industrialist and Henry Ford designed automobiles and started his own business‚ Ford Motor Company. Cornelius Vanderbilt‚ most commonly known as “The Commodore”‚ was an American businessman and philanthropist. Vanderbilt used perseverance‚ intelligence
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My Ma English 1A Prof. James Click 2-19-2014 The Problem of Rich and Poor For centuries‚ many philosophers have discussed the issue of class struggle. Karl Marx and Andrew Carnegie both developed theories of the unequal distribution of wealth a long time ago; however the only Carnegie’s ideology could apply to American society today. In “The Communist Manifesto”‚ Marx first introduces the two main social classes: bourgeois (the upper class) and proletarians (the lower class or working
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