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| robber barons and captains of industry: West Virginia and the Captains of Industry John Alexander Williams, 2003 |
| robber barons and captains of industry: The Robber Barons Matthew Josephson, 1962 Includes material on John D. Rockefeller, J. Pierpoint Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, William H. Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, E.H. Harriman, Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Jay Cooke, Daniel Drew, Henry C. Frick, James J. Hill, Charles M. Schwab, Henry Villard, Standard Oil Company, trusts. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: The Myth of the Robber Barons Burton W. Folsom, 1991-01-01 In his book The Myth of the Robber Barons, Folsom distinguishes between political entrepreneurs who ran inefficient businesses supported by government favors, and market entrepreneurs who succeeded by providing better and lower-cost products or services, usually while facing vigorous competition. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: The Gilded Age Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, 1904 |
| robber barons and captains of industry: A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn, 2003-02-04 Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Revised, updated, and featuring a new after, word by the author, this special twentieth anniversary edition continues Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: Andrew Carnegie Speaks to the 1% Andrew Carnegie, 2016-04-14 Before the 99% occupied Wall Street... Before the concept of social justice had impinged on the social conscience... Before the social safety net had even been conceived... By the turn of the 20th Century, the era of the robber barons, Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) had already accumulated a staggeringly large fortune; he was one of the wealthiest people on the globe. He guaranteed his position as one of the wealthiest men ever when he sold his steel business to create the United States Steel Corporation. Following that sale, he spent his last 18 years, he gave away nearly 90% of his fortune to charities, foundations, and universities. His charitable efforts actually started far earlier. At the age of 33, he wrote a memo to himself, noting ...The amassing of wealth is one of the worse species of idolatry. No idol more debasing than the worship of money. In 1881, he gave a library to his hometown of Dunfermline, Scotland. In 1889, he spelled out his belief that the rich should use their wealth to help enrich society, in an article called The Gospel of Wealth this book. Carnegie writes that the best way of dealing with wealth inequality is for the wealthy to redistribute their surplus means in a responsible and thoughtful manner, arguing that surplus wealth produces the greatest net benefit to society when it is administered carefully by the wealthy. He also argues against extravagance, irresponsible spending, or self-indulgence, instead promoting the administration of capital during one's lifetime toward the cause of reducing the stratification between the rich and poor. Though written more than a century ago, Carnegie's words still ring true today, urging a better, more equitable world through greater social consciousness. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: U.S. History P. Scott Corbett, Volker Janssen, John M. Lund, Todd Pfannestiel, Sylvie Waskiewicz, Paul Vickery, 2024-09-10 U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: Pierre S. Du Pont and the Making of the Modern Corporation Alfred Dupont Chandler, Stephen Salsbury, 2000 |
| robber barons and captains of industry: The First Tycoon T.J. Stiles, 2010-04-20 NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In this groundbreaking biography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt, the combative man and American icon who, through his genius and force of will, did more than perhaps any other individual to create modern capitalism. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, The First Tycoon describes an improbable life, from Vanderbilt’s humble birth during the presidency of George Washington to his death as one of the richest men in American history. In between we see how the Commodore helped to launch the transportation revolution, propel the Gold Rush, reshape Manhattan, and invent the modern corporation. Epic in its scope and success, the life of Vanderbilt is also the story of the rise of America itself. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: American Rascal Greg Steinmetz, 2023-08-22 A gripping, “rollicking” (John Carreyrou, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Blood) biography of Jay Gould, the greatest of the 19th-century robber barons, whose brilliance, greed, and bare-knuckled tactics made him richer than Rockefeller and led Wall Street to institute its first financial reforms. Had Jay Gould put his name on a university or concert hall, he would undoubtedly have been a household name today. The son of a poor farmer whose early life was marked by tragedy, Gould saw money as the means to give his family a better life…even if, to do so, he had to pull a fast one on everyone else. After entering Wall Street at the age of twenty-four, he quickly became notorious when he paralyzed the economy and nearly toppled President Ulysses S. Grant in the Black Friday market collapse of 1869 in an attempt to corner the market on gold—an event that remains among the darkest days in Wall Street history. Through clever financial maneuvers, he gained control over one of every six miles of the country’s rapidly expanding network for railroad tracks—coming close to creating the first truly transcontinental railroad and making himself one of the richest men in America. American Rascal shows Gould’s complex, quirky character. He was at once praised for his brilliance by Rockefeller and Vanderbilt and condemned for forever destroying American business values by Mark Twain. He lived a colorful life, trading jokes with Thomas Edison, figuring Thomas Nast’s best sketches, paying Boss Tweed’s bail, and commuting to work in a 200-foot yacht. Gould thrived in an expanding, industrial economy in which authorities tolerated inside trading and stock price manipulation because they believed regulation would stifle the progress. But by taking these practices to new levels, Gould showed how unbridled capitalism was, in fact, dangerous for the American economy. This “gripping biography” (Fortune) explores how Gould’s audacious exploitation of economic freedom triggered the first public demands for financial reforms—a call that still resonates today. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: Henry Clay Frick George Harvey, 2002 Written by a close friend, this is the story of the industrialist, art collector, and benefactor. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: A Patriot's History of the United States Larry Schweikart, Michael Patrick Allen, 2004-12-29 For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: The Ethics of Rhetoric Richard M. Weaver, 2017-04-07 In The Ethics of Rhetoric, Richard M. Weaver evaluates the ethical and cultural role of rhetoric and its reflection on society. Weaver draws upon classical notions of rhetoric in Plato’s Phaedrus, and he examines the effectiveness and implications of the manipulation of language in the works of Lincoln, Burke, and Milton. In this collection of essays, Weaver examines how different types of rhetoric persuade, their varying levels of effectiveness and credibility, and how one’s manner of argumentation and style of persuasion are indicative of character. Ultimately, Weaver argues that the cultivation of pure language creates pure people. Initially published in 1953, The Ethics of Rhetoric remains timeless in its evaluation of rhetoric’s role in society. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: Barons of the Sea Steven Ujifusa, 2019-07-02 “A fascinating, fast-paced history…full of remarkable characters and incredible stories” about the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades (Nathaniel Philbrick, National Book Award–winning author of In the Heart of the Sea). There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into their own, when fortunes were made and lost importing luxury goods from China. It was a secretive, glamorous, often brutal business—one where teas and silks and porcelain were purchased with profits from the opium trade. But the journey by sea to New York from Canton could take six agonizing months, and so the most pressing technological challenge of the day became ensuring one’s goods arrived first to market, so they might fetch the highest price. “With the verse of a natural dramatist” (The Christian Science Monitor), Steven Ujifusa tells the story of a handful of cutthroat competitors who raced to build the fastest, finest, most profitable clipper ships to carry their precious cargo to American shores. They were visionary, eccentric shipbuilders, debonair captains, and socially ambitious merchants with names like Forbes and Delano—men whose business interests took them from the cloistered confines of China’s expatriate communities to the sin city decadence of Gold Rush-era San Francisco, and from the teeming hubbub of East Boston’s shipyards and to the lavish sitting rooms of New York’s Hudson Valley estates. Elegantly written and meticulously researched, Barons of the Sea is a riveting tale of innovation and ingenuity that “takes the reader on a rare and intoxicating journey back in time” (Candice Millard, bestselling author of Hero of the Empire), drawing back the curtain on the making of some of the nation’s greatest fortunes, and the rise and fall of an all-American industry as sordid as it was genteel. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in America James Stuart Olson, 2002 Contains over two hundred alphabetically arranged articles that provide information about key individuals, technologies, inventions, court cases, companies, political institutions, economic events, and legislation during the Industrial Revolution in the U.S. from 1750 to 1920. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910 Esther Crain, 2016-09-27 The drama, expansion, mansions and wealth of New York City's transformative Gilded Age era, from 1870 to 1910, captured in a magnificently illustrated hardcover. In forty short years, New York City suddenly became a city of skyscrapers, subways, streetlights, and Central Park, as well as sprawling bridges that connected the once-distant boroughs. In Manhattan, more than a million poor immigrants crammed into tenements, while the half of the millionaires in the entire country lined Fifth Avenue with their opulent mansions. The Gilded Age in New York captures what is was like to live in Gotham then, to be a daily witness to the city's rapid evolution. Newspapers, autobiographies, and personal diaries offer fascinating glimpses into daily life among the rich, the poor, and the surprisingly large middle class. The use of photography and illustrated periodicals provides astonishing images that document the bigness of New York: the construction of the Statue of Liberty; the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge; the shimmering lights of Luna Park in Coney Island; the mansions of Millionaire's Row. Sidebars detail smaller, fleeting moments: Alice Vanderbilt posing proudly in her Electric Light ball gown at a society-changing masquerade ball; immigrants stepping off the boat at Ellis Island; a young Theodore Roosevelt witnessing Abraham Lincoln's funeral. The Gilded Age in New York is a rare illustrated look at this amazing time in both the city and the country as a whole. Author Esther Crain, the go-to authority on the era, weaves first-hand accounts and fascinating details into a vivid tapestry of American society at the turn of the century. Praise for New-York Historical Society New York City in 3D In The Gilded Age, also by Esther Crain: Vividly captures the transformation from cityscape of horse carriages and gas lamps 'bursting with beauty, power and possibilities' as it staggered into a skyscraping Imperial City. -- Sam Roberts, The New York Times Get a glimpse of Edith Wharton's world. -- Entertainment Weekly Must List What better way to revisit this rich period . . ? -- Library Journal |
| robber barons and captains of industry: Organized Labor... Samuel Gompers, 1925 |
| robber barons and captains of industry: Builders of American Business A.W. Shaw Company, 1915 |
| robber barons and captains of industry: Robber Baron John Franch, 2006 After losing his fortune and being jailed for financial improprieties in Philadelphia, Yerkes schemed his way out of prison. With his boundless ambition and entrepreneurial genius intact, he relocated to Chicago and made millions from questionable financial transactions, while at the same time forging one of the world's finest mass transit networks. Despite various philanthropic efforts, Yerkes and his methods were fiercely opposed by the press and public, and he left Chicago a bitter man. Moving to London, he organized much of the Underground, battled J. P. Morgan, and romanced Emilie Grigsby, the love of his life, before succumbing to kidney disease in 1905.. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: The Plot to Get Bill Gates Gary Rivlin, 2000 Moby Dick in Silicon Valley, this bright and readable (The New York Times) book tells the true story of Bill Gates and those who would harpoon him, offering a hilarious and original investigation into the meaning of America's most controversial mogul. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: How the Other Half Lives Jacob Riis, 2011 |
| robber barons and captains of industry: The Social Graces Renée Rosen, 2021-04-20 The USA Today Bestseller! Named one of 2021’s Most Anticipated Historical Novels by Oprah Daily ∙ SheReads ∙ Frolic ∙ BookReporter ∙ and more... The author of Park Avenue Summer throws back the curtain on one of the most remarkable feuds in history: Alva Vanderbilt and the Mrs. Astor's notorious battle for control of New York society during the Gilded Age. 1876. In the glittering world of Manhattan's upper crust, women are valued by their pedigree, dowry, and, most importantly, connections. They have few rights and even less independence—what they do have is society. The more celebrated the hostess, the more powerful the woman. And none is more powerful than Caroline Astor—the Mrs. Astor. But times are changing. Alva Vanderbilt has recently married into one of America's richest families. But what good is dizzying wealth when society refuses to acknowledge you? Alva, who knows what it is to have nothing, will do whatever it takes to have everything. Sweeping three decades and based on true events, this is the mesmerizing story of two fascinating, complicated women going head to head, behaving badly, and discovering what’s truly at stake. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: American Monsters Jack Newfield, Mark Jacobson, 2004 With specially commissioned essays by veteran chroniclers such as Pete Hamill and Jimmy Breslin, this collection spotlights 40 profiles of history's most celebrated and notorious Americans: the corrupt, greedy, power-mad, and vicious betrayers of the dreams of fair play and equal opportunity. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: Upton Sinclair and the Other American Century Kevin Mattson, 2006-04 Praise for UPTON SINCLAIR and the other American Century I look forward to all of Kevin Mattson's works of history and I've notbeen disappointed yet. Upton Sinclair is a thoughtful, well-researched, and extremely eloquently told excavation of the history of theAmerican left and, indeed, the American nation, as well as a testamentto the power of one man to influence his times. Well done. --Eric Alterman, author of When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences A splendid read. It reminds you that real heroes once dwelt among us. Mattson not only captures Sinclair's character, but the world he inhabited, with deft strokes whose energy and passion easily match his subject's. --Richard Parker, author of John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics From the meat-packing houses of Chicago to the automobile factories of Detroit to the voting booths of California, Upton Sinclair cut a wide swath as a muckraking writer who exposed the injustices rendered by American industrial capitalism. Now Kevin Mattson presents a much-needed exploration of this complex crusader. This is a thoughtful, provocative, and gripping account of an important figure who appeared equal parts intellectual, propagandist, and political combatant as he struggled to illuminate the 'other American century' inhabited by the poor and powerless. --Steven Watts, author of The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century |
| robber barons and captains of industry: Wealth Against Commonwealth Henry Demarest Lloyd, 1894 |
| robber barons and captains of industry: The Tycoons Charles R. Morris, 2006-10-03 Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary.—The Christian Science Monitor The modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, a moment of riotous growth that established America as the richest, most inventive, and most productive country on the planet. Acclaimed author Charles R. Morris vividly brings the men and their times to life. The ruthlessly competitive Carnegie, the imperial Rockefeller, and the provocateur Gould were obsessed with progress, experiment, and speed. They were balanced by Morgan, the gentleman businessman, who fought, instead, for a global trust in American business. Through their antagonism and their verve, they built an industrial behemoth—and a country of middle-class consumers. The Tycoons tells the incredible story of how these four determined men wrenched the economy into the modern age, inventing a nation of full economic participation that could not have been imagined only a few decades earlier. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: Meet You in Hell Les Standiford, 2006-06-13 Two founding fathers of American industry. One desire to dominate business at any price. “Masterful . . . Standiford has a way of making the 1890s resonate with a twenty-first-century audience.”—USA Today “The narrative is as absorbing as that of any good novel—and as difficult to put down.”—Miami Herald The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the riveting story of Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bloody steelworkers’ strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry. Set against the backdrop of the Gilded Age, Meet You in Hell captures the majesty and danger of steel manufacturing, the rough-and-tumble of the business world, and the fraught relationship between “the world’s richest man” and the ruthless coke magnate to whom he entrusted his companies. The result is an extraordinary work of popular history. Praise for Meet You in Hell “To the list of the signal relationships of American history . . . we can add one more: Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick . . . The tale is deftly set out by Les Standiford.”—Wall Street Journal “Standiford tells the story with the skills of a novelist . . . a colloquial style that is mindful of William Manchester’s great The Glory and the Dream.”—Pittsburgh Tribune-Review “A muscular, enthralling read that takes you back to a time when two titans of industry clashed in a battle of wills and egos that had seismic ramifications not only for themselves but for anyone living in the United States, then and now.”—Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River |
| robber barons and captains of industry: Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business Harold C. Livesay, 2007 A biography of Scotsman Andrew Carnegie that discusses how his actions, as founder of Carnegie Steel, contributed to the reorganization of the pattern of industrial activity. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: Triumphant Democracy; Or, Fifty Years' March of the Republic Andrew Carnegie, 1885 |
| robber barons and captains of industry: Iron Empires Michael A. Hiltzik, 2020 From Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America's railroad titans. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: Masters of Enterprise H. W. Brands, 1999 Here, in a wittily told and deeply insightful history, is a complete set of portraits of America's greatest generators of wealth. Only such a collective study allows us to appreciate what makes the great entrepreneurs really tick. As H.W. Brands shows, these men and women are driven, they are focused, they deeply identify with the businesses they create, and they possess the charisma necessary to persuade other talented people to join them. They do it partly for the money, but mostly for the thrill of creation. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: Triumphant Capitalism Kenneth Warren, 2000-05-15 Best remembered today for his fierce opposition to labor, especially during the Homestead Strike of 1892, Henry Clay Frick was also one of the most powerful and innovative industrialists of the nineteenth century.After consolidating the vital bituminous coke fields of the Connellsville region in western Pennsylvania, Frick became the most important of Andrew Carnegie's partners and the manager of Carnegie's steel interests. Later, his bitter oppositon to Carnegie was one factor in the events leading to the 1901 purchase of the Carnegie Steel Company by J. P. Morgan and the formation of the Unites States Steel Corporation.Kenneth Warren is the first historian to be given unrestricted access to the extensive Frick archives in Pittsburgh. Drawing on Frick's personal and business papers, as well as the records of the H. C. Frick Coal & Coke Company, the Carnegie Steel Company, and the U.S. Steel Corporation, Warren provides a wealth of new insights into Frick's relationship with such contemporaries as Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, Charles Schwab, and Elbert Gary. He describes and analyzes the key decisions that formed labor and industrial policy in the iron and steel industry during a period of growth that remains unparalled in American business history.Not only an industrial biography of a driving force in American industry and the organization of American business, Triumphant Capitolism, now available in paperback, makes a major contribution to our understanding of the history of the basic industries, the shaping of society, locality, and region - and thereby of laying the foundations for the value systems and landscapes of present-day America. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: United States History 2010 Modern America Student Edition Grade 11/12 Emma Jones Lapsansky-Werner, Werner, Prentice HALL, 2009-01 By the time teens are in high school, they have already spent years wrestling with a heavy backpack. It's high time to solve this problem--and Pearson can help. Explore Pearson@home social studies products for home use. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: Gilded Age Cocktails Cecelia Tichi, 2021-05-04 A delightful romp through America’s Golden Age of Cocktails The decades following the American Civil War burst with invention—they saw the dawn of the telephone, the motor car, electric lights, the airplane—but no innovation was more welcome than the beverage heralded as the “cocktail.” The Gilded Age, as it came to be known, was the Golden Age of Cocktails, giving birth to the classic Manhattan and martini that can be ordered at any bar to this day. Scores of whiskey drinks, cooled with ice chips or cubes that chimed against the glass, proved doubly pleasing when mixed, shaken, or stirred with special flavorings, juices, and fruits. The dazzling new drinks flourished coast to coast at sporting events, luncheons, and balls, on ocean liners and yachts, in barrooms, summer resorts, hotels, railroad train club cars, and private homes. From New York to San Francisco, celebrity bartenders rose to fame, inventing drinks for exclusive universities and exotic locales. Bartenders poured their liquid secrets for dancing girls and such industry tycoons as the newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst and the railroad king “Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt. Cecelia Tichi offers a tour of the cocktail hours of the Gilded Age, in which industry, innovation, and progress all take a break to enjoy the signature beverage of the age. Gilded Age Cocktails reveals the fascinating history behind each drink as well as bartenders’ formerly secret recipes. Though the Gilded Age cocktail went “underground” during the Prohibition era, it launched the first of many generations whose palates thrilled to a panoply of artistically mixed drinks. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: Bold Entrepreneur Robert Franklin Durden, 2003 Bold Entrepreneur is the scholarly biography of James B. Duke, a man who was more important to Duke University than it was to him or his life. His munificence in underwriting the establishment and permanent support of Duke University came towards the end of his life, after a long series of remarkable achievements in the business world. Along with such achievements, his great philanthropic actions have earned him a prominent place in history. James B. Duke, or Buck as his family called him, took over the family's tobacco manufacturing business after his father retired. He also played a key role in the establishment and then management of the British-American Tobacco Company in and after 1901-1902. From the standpoint of business history alone, this was a pioneering and colorful venture. Duke also ventured into Canadian hydroelectricity, a highly creative and bold move that dramatically revealed his entrepreneurial panache and genius. In this fascinating biography, Durden presents the life of a man who was not only a business genius, but also an avid horticulturist. He spent several million dollars on transforming a large portion of the Duke family farm in New Jersey into a magnificently landscaped park, one of the late Gilded Age's most magnificent country estates. This is also the biography of a most creative entrepreneurial capitalist, one who, after a lifetime of big business successes, finally turned his talent towards investing in a unique plan for perpetual philanthropy in the Carolinas. Duke's labors, loves, and legacy are all deftly chartered in this meticulously researched and impeccably presented portrait, which unflinchingly presents the good with the bad. -Midwest Book Review, July 2003 . . . the author makes a compelling case that this robber baron was a native genius whose business skills benefited all. -The News & Observer, August 3, 2003 ...Bold Entrepreneur ably relates the story of a fascinating historical figure and fills a large void in the historiography of the region. -The South Carolina Historical Magazine, October 2003 ...a very solid and compelling biography of a man who helped shape the history of North Carolina. -Georga Historical Quarterly, 2004 |
| robber barons and captains of industry: The Gilded Age: A History From Beginning to End Hourly History, 2019-01-29 The Gilded Age The period from 1870 to 1900 in the United States has become known as the Gilded Age, during which America was transformed almost beyond recognition. In the 1870s, the country was still recovering from a horrendously destructive Civil War. The nation was still mainly agrarian; cities were relatively small and large-scale industry almost non-existent. Thirty years later, the U.S. had become an industrial powerhouse with massive cities featuring skyscrapers, electric lights, automobiles on the streets, and subways running below. An influx of immigrants from different parts of the world had changed the very nature of American society which featured almost unimaginable wealth living side-by-side with abject poverty. Inside you will read about... ✓ Taming the Wild West ✓ Robber Barons and Captains of Industry ✓ Emergence of Labor Unions and Women's Movements ✓ The New Immigrants ✓ Invention and Innovation And much more! The Gilded Age was an era of entrepreneurs, inventions, industrial development, and new ideas. Most of all, it was a period of rapid and profound change which came at a high cost for the working class. In a Golden Age, life is good for everyone. But in a Gilded Age, there is only a thin surface of gold over underlying base metal, a metaphor for a small number of fabulously wealthy people who grew rich by exploiting vast numbers who lived in poverty. This is the story of the Gilded Age of America. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: Age of Betrayal Jack Beatty, 2008-04-08 Age of Betrayal is a brilliant reconsideration of America's first Gilded Age, when war-born dreams of freedom and democracy died of their impossibility. Focusing on the alliance between government and railroads forged by bribes and campaign contributions, Jack Beatty details the corruption of American political culture that, in the words of Rutherford B. Hayes, transformed “a government of the people, by the people, and for the people” into “a government by the corporations, of the corporations, and for the corporations.” A passionate, gripping, scandalous and sorrowing history of the triumph of wealth over commonwealth. |
| robber barons and captains of industry: Bottoms Up, America! Bill Fitzpatrick, Dave Fooshe, 2009-12-31 |
| robber barons and captains of industry: The Robber Barons Matthew Josephson, 2008-07-10 Presents profiles of the captains of industry who ruled America after the Civil War including Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, and Gould |
| robber barons and captains of industry: The People's Tycoon Steven Watts, 2009-03-04 How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford’s outsized genius been brought to life so vividly as it is in this engaging and superbly researched biography. The real Henry Ford was a tangle of contradictions. He set off the consumer revolution by producing a car affordable to the masses, all the while lamenting the moral toll exacted by consumerism. He believed in giving his workers a living wage, though he was entirely opposed to union labor. He had a warm and loving relationship with his wife, but sired a son with another woman. A rabid anti-Semite, he nonetheless embraced African American workers in the era of Jim Crow. Uncovering the man behind the myth, situating his achievements and their attendant controversies firmly within the context of early twentieth-century America, Watts has given us a comprehensive, illuminating, and fascinating biography of one of America’s first mass-culture celebrities. |
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The Tycoons: Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?
Judging by the recent book, The Tycoons, it may take about 100 years for monopolists accused of being and “robber barons” to morph into admirable “captains if industry.”
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The term robber barons was a derogatory term applied to powerful, wealthy industrialists— the captains of industry who monopolized the railroads, the steel industry, the tobacco industry, …
Captains of Industry? or Robber Barons? - Weebly
Captains of Industry? or Robber Barons? Overview: The thirty years plus, following the end of the Civil War, is often referred to as the “Gilded Age”. This was a term coined by Mark Twain, the …
Captains of Industry or Robber Barons? Document-Based Question
Decide which position you would support, that these men were Captains of Industry (who made an overall positive contribution to the United States), or Robber Barons (who through unethical …
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A few key individuals played a leading role in this process. Condemned as robber barons or praised as captains of industry, they helped to invent the giant corporation and became the …
Captains of Industry or Robber Barons - 8TH GRADE US HISTORY
Captains of Industry or Robber Barons? Poster Assignment Outside of class, you will be creating a colorful poster about a leader of big business in the Industrial Era. Were they captains of …
Big Business Tycoons: Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?
John Pierpont Morgan was a financier (banker), art collector, and philanthropist born on April 17, 1837, in Hartford, Connecticut.The son of a banker, Morgan went into the family business and …
The Captains of Industry, An Annotated Bibliography of Selected …
Captains of Industry, and how they got to be so wealthy. Also good to use on how these men got so rich in their industry, whether it was luck or smarts. I think a good lesson to use this would …
HANDS-ON-HISTORY: “Robber Barons or Heroes of Industry?”
17 Nov 2015 · “Robber Barons or Heroes of Industry?” Document #1 They were aggressive men, as were the first feudal barons; sometimes they were lawless; in important crises, nearly all of …
Rise of Industry & Big Business - Weebly
Comparing Robber Barons & Captains of Industry What is Meant By Success? Greed: Ostentatious Wealth: and Person: Resources you used to find info: 1. How he/she acquired …
Monopolies, Trusts, and Pools - Core Knowledge
challenges, including hazardous conditions and low wages, leading some to recast the “captains of industry” as “robber barons” who benefited at the expense of others. In light of the immense …
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Chapter 7 Robber Baron or Industrial Statesman - University of …
Robber Baron or Industrial Statesman M any years ago the term ‘robber baron' was applied to German lords who forcibly collected money from every ship passing by their castles on the …
Horizontal Integration
AMERICAN INDUSTRIALISTS: ROBBER BARONS OR CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY? What do these images reveal? HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION Rockefeller bought up rival businesses in …
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Captains of Industry or Robber Barons? Overview: The decades following the end of the Civil War are often referred to as the “Gilded Age”. This was a term coined by Mark Twain, the most …
Handouts 1-3 - University of Oklahoma
AMERICAN INDUSTRIALISTS: ROBBER BARONS OR CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY? American Industrialization Outline • Industrialization and Big Business – New technology/inventions sets …
Handout 4 Andrew Carnegie and Historical Interpretation
AMERICAN INDUSTRIALISTS: ROBBER BARONS OR CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY? Historical Interpretations Historian A 1927 “The industrialist robber barons of the late 19th century were …
Retrospectives: Captains of Industry - American Economic …
college-bred men, black captains of industry, and missionaries of culture.” American historians of the time proffered explanations for the rise and success of captains of industry. For example, …
An Inquiry Design Model for Grade 11 - TRSite.org
Robber Barons or Captains of Industry? Big Business at the Turn of the 20th Century An Inquiry Design Model for Grade 11 641 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202 · www.trsite.org · 716 …
CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY or ROBBER BARONS?
CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY or ROBBER BARONS? Directions: Examine the two definitions given on the PowerPoint presentation. Then, read each description of the activities practiced by the …
Stale Stereotypes and the Need for Fresh Insights: The Myth of …
and Progressive Era to either "Robber Barons" or "Captains of Industry." More and better studies are needed to fully understand the nuanced lives, accomplishments and contributions, failures …
An Inquiry Design Model for Grade 11 - TRSite.org
Robber Barons or Captains of Industry? Big Business at the Turn of the 20th Century An Inquiry Design Model for Grade 11 641 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202 · www.trsite.org · 716 …
America's Gilded Age: Robber Barons and Captains of Industry
Captains of Industry and Robber Barons The wealthy elite of the late 19th century consisted of industrialists who amassed their fortunes as so-called robber barons and captains of industry. …
Chapter 6: Expansion of American Industry - Denton ISD
A. The expansion of American industry was sparked by technological advances and financial investments. B. Robber Barons or Captains of Industry? 1. Robber Barons imply that business …
Captains of Industry Robber Barons? - waddelland
¡Henry Ford – Transportation Net worth: $199 billion Business: Ford Motor Company (Ford is the second-largest U.S.-based automaker and the fifth-largest in the world). ¡ John D. Rockefeller …
Were the founders of American industry "robber barons" or "captains …
Were the founders of American industry "robber barons" or "captains of industry?" The wave of industrialism that we have been studying was often driven by a few great men known as …
1830 Railroads And Robber Barons Manual
Barons 1830: Railroads & Robber Barons · 1830: Railroads And Robber Barons railroads that could move the products of the new large—scale industries. For some it is (n the early …
The Industrial Age in America: Robber Barons & Captains of Industry
7 Dec 2015 · The Industrial Age in America: Robber Barons & Captains of Industry Directions: 1. Visit Mr. Merel’s Google Site and read about some of the wealthiest - and most controversial - …
ROBBER BARONS VS. CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY Name:
ROBBER BARON v. CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY: CARNEGIE and ROCKEFELLER years of effort, the returns from which are required for the comfortable maintenance and education of families. …
Industrialist Analysis Sheet - University of Oklahoma
AMERICAN INDUSTRIALISTS: ROBBER BARONS OR CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY? Industrialist Analysis Sheet Date:_____ Name:_____ Industrialist Name: How did he acquire his wealth? …
Robber Barons or Captains of Industry
Robber Barons or Captains of Industry Document #2: The Story of a Great Monopoly (1881) Henry Demarest Lloyd was trained as a lawyer, but is better known for his thirteen years (1872 …
APUSH Period 6: The Rise of Industrial Capitalism
10. Robber Barons vs Captains of Industry/Industrial Statesmen 11. Mass Production 12. Scientific Management 13. Chinese Exclusion Act 14. Great Railroad Strike of 1877 15. Greenback …
Handout 4 Andrew Carnegie and Historical Interpretation
AMERICAN INDUSTRIALISTS: ROBBER BARONS OR CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY? Handout 4 Andrew Carnegie and Historical Interpretation 1889 Andrew Carnegie “Not evil, but good, has …
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Robber Barons and Captains of Industry Skill #6: I can interpret past events and issues from various points of view. Part 1: For each historical event, please write “R” for Robber Baron or …
Unit One Unit Title: Industrialization and Expansion through the ...
rise of the industrial economy through innovations and the business practices of the Robber Barons/Captains of Industry, as well as the causes and outcomes of immigration, urbanization, …
Corporate Philanthropy of Robber Barons - Sacred Heart University
These two terms, “robber baron,” and “captain of industry,” are widely used to describe the juxtaposing reputations of the leader ’s merit, character, and reputations that vary depending …
Matthew Josephson, Robber Barons - ia803001.us.archive.org
Captains Industry ... Matthew Josephson, Robber Barons of industry were, nevertheless, agents of progress—in the words of their contemporary Marx ; under their command our mainly …
Chapter 16
16.3a “Robber Barons” or “Captains of Industry”? 16.3b The Trust 16.3c John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Trust 16.3d Carnegie and Steel 16.3e The Growth of Trusts 16.3f Opposition …
CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY OR ROBBER BARONS?
CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY OR ROBBER BARONS? Over the course of the late 1800s, entrepreneurs like Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and J.P. …
Handout 2 Carnegie and Rockefeller - Documents - University of …
AMERICAN INDUSTRIALISTS: ROBBER BARONS OR CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY? Handout 2 Carnegie and Rockefeller - Documents Meet Andrew Carnegie: The Two Andrews Generous …
AP United States History - College Board
• Robber barons/captains of industry: Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan • Labor unions/strikes (general or specific) • Thirteenth, Fourteenth, …
Robber Baron or Captain of Industry?
Robber Baron or Captain of Industry? Henry Ford was born on the July 30, 1863 on a farm to parents William and Mary Ford, along with his 4 other siblings Robert, Margaret, William and …
Pathways to the Present - Denton ISD
Robber Barons or Captains of Industry? ―Robber Barons‖ • Business leaders built their fortunes by stealing from the public. • They drained the country of its natural resources. • They …
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A few key individuals played a leading role in this process. Condemned as robber barons or praised as captains of industry, they helped to invent the giant corporation and became the …
Goal 5 The Gilded Age - Mr. Champion WHS
decide if these men are considered Captains of Industry or Robber Barons . Andrew Carnegie: Man of Steel Andrew Carnegie owned Carnegie Steel Company . By 1900, using the …
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Handout 2 Carnegie and Rockefeller - Documents
AMERICAN INDUSTRIALISTS: ROBBER BARONS OR CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY? Handout 2 Carnegie and Rockefeller - Documents Meet Andrew Carnegie: The Two Andrews Generous …
Horizontal Integration - University of Oklahoma
AMERICAN INDUSTRIALISTS: ROBBER BARONS OR CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY? What do these images reveal? HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION Rockefeller bought up rival businesses in …
Captain Of Industry Definition Us History (PDF)
steel industry, a process that turned a poor young man into the richest man in robber barons or captains of industry WEBExplore the legacies of the Gilded Age magnates: were they 'robber …
Resource Guide United States History - IN.gov
25 Sep 2017 · Edsitement: The Industrial Age in America: Robber Barons and Captains of Industry Edsitement: The Industrial Age in America: Sweatshops, Steel Mills, and Factories …
Name Date Robber Baron or Captain of Industry?
Robber Baron or Captain of Industry? Assigned Individual How he acquired his wealth. How he (or his related i n d u s t r i e s) treated workers. How he spent his money. How he donated his …
Stale Stereotypes and the Need for Fresh Insights: The Myth of …
and Progressive Era to either "Robber Barons" or "Captains of Industry." More and better studies are needed to fully understand the nuanced lives, accomplishments and contributions, failures …
Difference Between Captain Of Industry And Robber Baron
Robber Barons DiMarkco Stephen Chandler,2012 Robber Barons, is a phrase used by a number of historians to ... term “captains of industry”, suggesting that they provided new markets, more …
Captains Of Industry Or Robber Barons Answer Key (PDF)
Defining "Captains of Industry" and "Robber Barons" The terms "captains of industry" and "robber barons" represent opposing viewpoints on the same historical figures. "Captains of industry" …
