John D. Rockefeller

Larry Madaras there are two people to argue this question. Howard Zinn believes that these big shot entrepreneurs were in deed “Robber Barons” because they exhilarated monopolies and used government officials to keep laws in agreement to it all. John S. Gordon argues…

made Manifest Destiny easier to accomplish. The government supported the growth of business, so there was a large amount of corruption. There were three powerful men that had control over the economy. These were, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J. Pierpont Morgan. Rockefeller is considered to be America’s first billionaire. He owned the Standard Oil Company and became the largest business. He employed different tactics to eliminate the competition by buying other companies, this was…

The business practices of men such as Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt and Tweed were not always considered to be ethical and morally sound. John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Cornelius Vanderbilt are considered to be three of the largest business pioneers of the Industrial Era. William “Boss” Tweed was a “political machine”, controlling the activities of the mayor and the government for over 20 years. The government should regulate the business practices of these men because many of…

Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan. With limited governmental regulation, many of these industries were able to evolve into monopolies and collude amongst themselves, an evolution that generated public outrage at the resulting unfair practices and inequalities. The industries countered the populist response by becoming more involved in politics. Cornelius Vanderbilt. Cornelius Vanderbilt was an industrial businessman who made his fortune in the railroad business (John 2012).…

With a large number of new businesses and industries came various business techniques and innovations. These business techniques and innovations included consolidation, vertical integration, horizontal integration, trusts, and monopolization. John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and other captains of industry all used and practically created the listed business techniques. Consolidation is the act of combining smaller companies to create larger ones. An example of this is the railroad. The more…

States. This idea is what every person works for in their lifetime. Three men made it very clear that the American dream was possible starting with very little. Throughout the Gilded Age in American history, Industrialists Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Cornelius Vanderbilt sought the American dream through wealth and greed by taking advantage of the workplace but also advanced society by providing opportunities. Andrew Carnegie advanced society by giving back millions made from…

The “Men Who Built America” revolutionized our country. Architecture, transportation, and housing was forever changed when Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and Henry Ford decided to take action. Their minds thought alike, for they all had the same movement: to make their industry a success. The men who built America were Captains of Industry, or put simply: beneficial to America and its future. The chain of historic events…

In the 1890’s to the 1920’s America had many large businesses and companies starting up. Many of these Businesses and companies were owned by large tycoons like John D. Rockefeller. A tycoon is, as described by dictionary.com, “a person of great wealth, influence, or power.”One of these large business tycoons was John Pierrepont Morgan, he is better known as J.P. Morgan. He was a financial, railroad, and a banking tycoon who sometimes merged with other companies. Such as the time that he merged…

Howard Zinn argues that the new industrialists such as John D Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P Morgan adopted business practices that encouraged monopolies and used the powers of the government to control the masses from rebellion in A Peoples History of the United States of America. Rockefeller, Carnegie, and J.P Morgan all became massively wealthy due the spur of innovation, cheap labor, and other practices. Zinn argues that these “robber barons” used sly business tactics to keep their…

There has long been a debate no whether the capitalists of the late 19th century to early 20th century (such as Rockefeller, Carnegie, etc.) were “captains of industry” who looked to better the budding country or corrupt “robber barons” who only looked after themselves. One needs to take a good long look back into this time period to uncover the truth of the matter; however, once one does this, it becomes quite apparent that the later of the two is quite factual while the former falls flat on…