Robber Barons Or Captains Of Industry
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Since the gilded age of American history historians have debated
weather or not the great industrial leader who put our counrty back
together in the torent years following the civil war were robber barons or
captains of industry. Three of these great men who organized industrial
America and chang ....
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.... a sum of money and then having it returned to him
at the end of a year with interest. It was this incodent that taught
Rockefeller just how powerful capital was. Rockefeller earned his fortune
in the oil industry. It was also in the oil industry that he earned his
title of robber baron. Rockefeller is known for his oil monopoly which at
once controlled 95% of the world oil market. His oil business started with
refining. Rockefeller knew that oil drilling was very expensive and he
figured ....
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