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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…

Collis made America much better by being involved in all these projects that affected the american people in such a positive way. Now people from the south were able to travel to the west because of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Major Wickham was able to get Huntington involved in the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, because of Huntington’s involvment this railroad became a success. This railway was from Virginia and in West Virginia there is a town named after him. He established a coal business…

Thomas W. Truxes writes in “Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York that during the Seven Years' War”, New York's "most successful businessmen were daring, resourceful, and often ruthless." This assertion is supported throughout the book with multiple examples of how the successful businessmen of the time exhibited these traits. They were bold, inventive, and brutal. These men went to whatever lengths necessary to make money and ensure the security of their businesses. They…

the first skyscraper. With this is wealth began to grow and he became closer to his rival Rockefeller. Andrew blamed Rockefeller of his mentor's death because his mentor was focused in the railroad industry and since Rockefeller pulled his oil from being shipped by Railroad the rail industry died causing Andrew to change his business. Since that time Andrew soul focus was to gain revenge by surpassing Rockefeller in profit and overall wealth. In order to do this however Andrew Hired a man named…

from the ground up like Rockefeller and Carnegie. J.P. Morgan went to Thomas Edison to find the answer. The answer being electricity. Morgan saw that potential that electricity and the lightbulb possessed and was determined to become the one who lights America, but Rockefeller knew that kerosene would go out of business and tried to stop it. All while Andrew Carnegie was reconstructing his steel business from its problems. In the end Morgan started General Electric, Rockefeller started…

John D. Rockefeller, the episode talked about how they changed America and made the "American Dream." The show talks about how Cornelius Vanderbilt made transportation easier, by expanding,owning, and controlling the railroads of the U.S, and how John D. Rockefeller had the oil to fuel the trains, and even give people light. Cornelius Vanderbilt was the owner of most of the railroads of America, at the time, and he needed someone to provide oil for all his trains. John D. Rockefeller was a…

The powerful Industrialists of the gilded age are often negatively connotated, due to the deceptive behavior and questionable activities that they are known to have partaken in. Four notable men of this standing were John D. Rockefeller, monopolizer of the oil industry, Andrew Carnegie, in the steel industry, J.P. Morgan, a financier and banker, and Cornelius Vanderbilt, who was wealthy and powerful in the railroad industry and built the Transcontinental railroad. Although they were in many ways…

leaders who managed to earn their money not by how hard they worked but by their dishonest methods. One of the robber barons that were the most recognized was John D. Rockefeller. John Davidson Rockefeller was a business magnate and philanthropist born July 8th, 1839 in Richford, New York. To start with, one of the reasons Rockefeller was a robber…

Born into poverty to living in fame and fortune Andrew Carnegie pushed through it all. Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland, but when he was only 13 he had moved to Pennsylvania, then was introduced to the railroad and oil industries. He is most famous for his steel industry which led him to fame and fortune. Through hard times as a child to growing his fortune from the steel industry Andrew Carnegie became one of the richest men on the planet. Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835, He…

Andrew Carnegie is a philanthropist of his time, and helped shape America for the better. Although I believe this to be true, it is not a statement made without appraisal or periods of ambivalence. In researching the world’s richest man, it’s easy to see him as the good guy in his youth, as a young man, and eventually in his retirement. It was during his industrial revolution where Carnegie seemed to be beside himself as a robber baron. Still holding his core beliefs and values throughout his…