1st Baron Dowding

Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and John D. Rockefeller are men of insight, innovation, and ingenuity. These are the men that started an age of advancement in steel, oil, and railroads within a time period of a few decades. Vanderbilt, a self-made man and cut-throat business man, owned the largest shipping empire in the world. He started with a single ferry which soon became a fleet of ships transporting goods and passengers throughout the country. He soon became known as the commodore.…

countless industrialists were accused of using unscrupulous or dishonest methods of hoarding wealth and building monopolies. Examples of these accused captains of industry include John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan, nicknamed "Robber Barons." While many consumers and competitors were quick to attack these powerful businessmen, their primary interest was merely to build on the success of their companies, and reach their full potential. I believe they were, in a word,…

Robber barons were detrimental in the development of American industrialization in the late 19th century. The term Robber Barons has a derogatory term applied to powerful, wealthy, and industrialists. Robber Barons were entrepreneurs whom many considered selfish and to be involved in activities such as dirty business schemes. Many small businesses were driven into debt having to file bankruptcy due to the monopolies created by Robber Barons. Most of the working class had built a hatred for…

The Gilded Age was a time period in American history when the economy exploded with railroads and big businesses with the help of: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan. These three were some powerful individuals that helped the economy shoot up. Carnegie helped with steel, Rockefeller with oil, and Morgan with banking. They all were captains of industry in their own way and they all played a big role in revolutionizing the way things currently function. Although some of their…

economy was mostly dependent on the robber barons who owned large corporations that resulted in large incomes for these businessmen. (Pierpaoli) Some of these robber barons were: John D. Rockefeller who owned Standard Oil, Andrew Carnegie who owned Carnegie Steel, J.P Morgan who was a financier. (Pierpaoli) These robber barons used trusts and pools to buyout competition making them the only one company to…

Who used to dominate the business world of America? The men are called the titans and they had many traits that made them so great. Cornelius Vanderbilt, John B. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan were four of them. The Titans shared many traits, three of which were being future thinkers, being strategic thinkers, and being risk takers and these traits helped them build America into what it is today. To succeed, the titans had to be strategic. Cornelius Vanderbilt, demonstrating this…

Henry Clay Frick was labeled as a robber baron. Frick was born to a farming family in western Pennsylvania and received little formal education (Encyclopedia of World Biography). His grandfather was a wealthy miller and distiller and Frick became bookkeeper for his grandfather's businesses at age 19 (Encyclopedia of World Biography). Frick was knowledgeable of the potential value of coking coal deposits for the developing steel industry (YourDictionary). With financial help from relatives and…

businessmen who used them, were under high scrutiny about their ethics. Many discredited their numerous achievements because they believe the means necessary to achieve them was horrendous. These people would call the businessmen of the time ‘Robber Barons.’ (Doc C-1). However, many also saw the practices as revolutionary to American business and saw the businessmen as ‘Captains of Industry’ for their good work and innovate practices. (Doc C-2). This is the title the businessmen of the Gilded…

During the mid to late 19th century, the term “Robber Baron” came into use. It was used to describe capitalist men who ran big businesses and allegedly acquired their vast fortunes from questionable and unethical business practices. The unethical practices regularly consisted of exploiting workers, including children, with low wages and long, hard hours in unacceptable working conditions; influencing government and elections, thus furthering the corruption of the government; buying out…

century Many great business leaders from the 19th century have been regarded to as greedy, unscrupulous even as robber barons. They were also regarded as far too power hungry. Is there such a thing as far too power hungry? Were these men actually captains of industry and ahead of their time? Cornelius Vanderbilt is a prime example of someone who people view as a robber baron. Vanderbilt did not come from a family with money. At the age of sixteen with only a one hundred dollar loan,…