Cornelius Vanderbilt

Andrew Carnegie made 480 million dollars through his steelmaking companies. But what did his workers make? Many Americans worked 70 hour’s a week for very little money. Fortunately, now there are laws that have been placed allowing people to stay safe and healthy, but in the 1800s they did not have these laws. Now the average hours of work that an American has is 38.6 hours. Workers during the Gilded Age were treated badly by the capitalists and their management organizations. During the…

Men Who Built America 1. The most important information in the video is: how Andrew Carnegie, JP morgen, Henry ford, John D Rockefeller and Cornelius Vanderbilt built American by putting together forming an alliance between to protect their empires and how they developed the country. For the first time Americans were about to live the American dream, working with good pay and living in good conditions. 2. The main inference/conclusion in the video are: how way all five of them could transform…

robber baron meant the exact opposite. Robber barons were business owners that had a negative effect on the American economy. I think there were captains of industry but there were also robber barons. Some robber barons included Marshall Field, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, and Russell Sage. These four wealthy individuals were known as robber barons because even though their businesses brought in fortunes they still paid their workers very little. They made their workers work in poor and…

Nicaragua represents a major component of Latin American history in the 19 century. Although Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, and other countries in Central America are developing countries, there are three major events in its history that has shaped its economic conditions of the present. These include: the enactment of liberal policies, the William Walker affair, and production of bananas in Nicaragua. In early Nicaraguan politics, there was a polarization of beliefs between the liberals and…

into a global superpower in just 50 years. Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, Henry Ford – their names are synonymous with innovation, big business and the American Dream. These leaders sparked incredible advances in technology while struggling to consolidate their…

wouldn’t want to sell something I worked on so hard to start. Plus if it was something I enjoyed I would probably do it for the rest of my life. 2. Reflect on the family, educational background, entrepreneurial personality, and career patterns of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Analyze the important tactics used to achieve success.…

episode begins after the American civil war and “for the first time in American History, the man most capable of leading America is not a politician. But a self made man ..”. Therefore these men were Cornelius Vanderbilt, John Davison Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan and latter Henry Ford. Vanderbilt had connected the country through a railway system. Rockefeller had used his trademark ruefulness to become the owner of the biggest American Oil company. Andrew Carnegie made the…

Nathan Grant Mrs. Shew English 3 11 April 2024 Carnegie mini-Q A hero has integrity, courage, and charisma and will face any challenge head-on and pursue greatness no matter what is in their way. Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist who played a big role in American history. Carnegie was known for his wealth and generosity in building schools and libraries. Carnegie was not a hero because he overworked people, he was directly tied to the Johnstown flood. He…

guessed it, since the era occurred only 5 years after The Civil War, it negatively affected the poor and it positively affected the rich. Many (last) names you hear today, such as Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and Cornelius Vanderbilt, are people who basically formed a monopoly together during this era, and caused so many of these economic changes. A monopoly basically means one person or…

Due to the rise of shipping and railroads, trading and travel became faster and widely available. In this period, the men who shared the qualities of the robber barons began to rise unlike those before them. Men like Benjamin Franklin, one of their first predecessors, had lived a long time before them, but he merely displayed the character, not the revolutionary pioneering of the men of the gilded age. Samuel Slater, another of their antecedents, came to Rhode Island in the 1800s when…