Captain of Industry or Robber Baron?
American History
Koch
10/7/20
Carnegie | Rockefeller | Pullman |
- Born in Scotland in a poor family, immigrated to US at 12 | - Entered oil business in 1863 with an oil refinery. This grew significantly and became Standard Oil | - Designed and built railroad cars. Sleeper car made long distance travel possible |
- Rapid advancement in jobs. Invested in iron, oil, railroad, and telegraph industries. Founded his own company, rose to the top of the steel industry | - By 1879, Standard Oil refined 90% of all US oil giving him a monopoly | - 1881 Pullman built an entire town south of Chicago strictly for his employees. |
- Used vertical integration to keep costs low and profits high | - Used horizontal integration to keep costs low and profits high | - He owned everything in the town: the church, the shops, the library, the houses |
- 1901, sold his company for $480 million | - Created the first trust | - No local newspapers and no local government in these towns |
- Philanthropist. Gave a lot of $$ to support education, libraries, scientific work, and started Carnegie Mellon University in PA and built Carnegie Hall | - Made special deals with railroad and shipping companies to get lowest possible prices | - If you spoke out against the company or him you could find yourself not only without a job but without a home or any money |
- Wrote The Gospel of Wealth where he talks about the duty of the wealthy to the rest of society | - Gave away over half of his money to charities. University of CHicago, Rockefeller Foundation, and other education causes. |
Define the following terms: (1 point each)
Robber Baron -
Captain of Industry -
Use the information contained within the provided table, our class notes, Men who Built America, and our textbook to respond to the following prompts.
Carnegie
List facts that could be used to support that Andrew Carnegie was a Captain of Industry. (2 points)
List facts that could be used to support that Andrew Carnegie was a Robber Baron.
(2 points)
Support whether you believe that Andrew Carnegie should be considered a Captain of Industry or a Robber Baron. (4 Points)
John D. Rockefeller
List facts that could be used to support that John D. Rockefeller was a Captain of Industry. (2 points)
List facts that could be used to support that John D. Rockefeller was a Robber Baron.
(2 points)
Support whether you believe that John D. Rockefeller should be considered a Captain of Industry or a Robber Baron. (4 points)
George Pullman
List facts that could be used to support that George Pullman was a Captain of Industry.
(2 points)
List facts that could be used to support that George Pullman was a Robber Baron.
(2 points)
Support whether you believe that George Pullman should be considered a Captain of Industry or a Robber Baron. (4 points)
- Fill the historical head with ideas, thoughts, visions, or motivations of one of the tycoons we have studied in this unit. You may add facial features (nose, ears, hair, etc.)
- Create 4 visual images that you draw or find inside the head outline.
- Use one phrase or word, as one of the images that may be very relevant to this person. You may use dates like birth, death, or a significant year.
- Number each image and in the table below, write a statement about each image next to the corresponding number. - what does the image tell us is important about this person.
- Put yourself in the shoes of the person you portraying
- Be sure the images you draw are related to the Second Industrial Revolution.
- Neatness is very important, but your content and not your artistic abilities are being graded.
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