Robber barons

horizontal integration to rapidly grow his industry. Regardless, Standard Oil even disturbed its products around the globe. Standard Oil even had the idea to employ scientists to find different ways for the use of petroleum. Rockefeller was a modern robber baron. Railroads paid tribute to him. Even more, he forced the rest of the oil refineries to join him. Rockefeller thought of himself as bringing control of the oil industry (Coffey, 1989). John even thought it was right between him and god.…

the rich, providing the platform for an environment where 400 American billionaires are worth $2 trillion, equal to the worth of 150 million americans. That kind of unequal distribution of wealth hasn’t been seen in the U.S since the age of the Robber Barons in the 19th century. Both eras notably marked by extreme…

Political corruptions have served many government officials with the approach of abuse in the political power. A study has shown that corruption have been around for a very long time. While Latin America has not been pillaged as thoroughly as Africa, corruption is a serious problem in most countries in the region. One of the most corrupt countries in Latin America is Mexico, because of its bad and corrupt political figures they’ve had for many years now, benefiting and stealing from the…

CHILDREN IN the United States are routinely taught that Abraham Lincoln of Illinois freed the slaves. But few children learn that Eugene Victor Debs of Indiana devoted his life to ending wage slavery. Ray Ginger’s wonderful biography of Debs—The Bending Cross—first published in 1949, and reprinted by Haymarket Books in 2007—introduces readers to a working-class hero as well as a period of immense struggle from below often treated as a footnote in most U. S. histories. Some of Debs’ contemporary…

The Revolutionary era took place from 1763-1789. There were many significant African Americans during this time period. James Armistead was a slave of William Armistead in New Kent County, Virginia, volunteered to spy for the Continental army commander General Lafayette. James soon became a servant to British general Lord Cornwallis, who asked him to spy on the Americans. As a double agent, James gave unimportant information to Cornwallis, while keeping Lafayette informed about British troop…

Henry Ford is commonly associated as the man who invented both the automobile and the assembly line, however, the actual inventors of these devices are Karl Benz and Ransom E. Olds, respectively. Nonetheless, Ford can be attributed with the modifications to the production of the car and the assembly line that made them successful. Unsatisfied with a life of farming, Henry Ford became an apprentice to a mechanic and his career as an engineer only grew from that point on. In the 1940’s, despite…

After the reconstruction of the south, the United States began to industrialize in the east many people left their jobs to work in factories. Wealthy businessmen built factories to meet the demands for building materials in developing cities; In order to make money economically, these businessmen gave their workers fair wages, but after some time workers experienced the downsides of working factories. Every working person in the United States had different opportunites to earn money, instead of…

The era of "Roaring Twenties" in the United States often has another name - The Prosperity, and is characterized by rapid economic growth. The Roaring Twenties or The Jazz Age - French called it “années folles” (Crazy Years) – is a period of unprecedented change in all the spheres of life in North America and some European countries. During this period public life was to undergo dramatic changes: Victorian morality had become survival of the past, and America began to live according to new…

The Industrial Revolution changed more than industry. Industrialization is the process of a country or nation relying on manufactured goods rather than agricultural ones. From the mid eighteenth to early nineteenth century, an industrial explosion occurred. This was the Industrial Revolution. It began in Britain with the expansion of coal and textile industries. This spread throughout western Europe and areas of North America and lead to a trend of manufacturing goods. By the twentieth century…

Beginning with the end of the Civil War and the North’s continuing boom in industry and ending with the beginning of Progressivism in the turn of the century, consolidations and business rose while the descent of many citizens became omnipresent . The idea of the “self-made man” from the Horatio-Alger Myth was just that: a myth. Social Darwinism appeared and dictated that the better companies and better/wealthier people would come out on top because the impoverished were somehow undeserving of…