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Captains of Industry OR Robber Barrons?
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The American Dream
Big Business
Who are they?
They were popular during the Great Depression.
Name , Business, City
John Jacob Astor (real estate, fur) New York City
Andrew Carnegie (steel) - Pittsburgh and New York
Jay Cooke (finance) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Charles Crocker (railroads) - California
Daniel Drew (finance) New York state
James Buchanan Duke (tobacco) near Durham, North Carolina
James Fisk (finance) New York state
Henry Morrison Flagler (railroads, oil, the Standard Oil company) New York City and Palm Beach, Florida
Henry Clay Frick (steel) Pittsburgh and New York City
John Warne Gates (steel)
Jay Gould (railroads)
Edward Henry Harriman (railroads) New York state[6]
Milton S. Hershey (Chocolate)
Mark Hopkins (railroads) - California
J. P. Morgan (banking, finance, steel, industrial consolidation) New York City
Henry B. Plant (railroads) - Florida
John D. Rockefeller (oil) Standard Oil
John D. Spreckels (San Diego transportation, water, media) San Diego, California
Leland Stanford (railroads) Sacramento, California and San Francisco, California
Cornelius Vanderbilt (railroads)[6]
Robber Barons is a term for 19th century United States. It is used for businessmen and bankers and they're powerful and wealthy.
The term came from U.S. political and economic commentator, Matthew Josephson in a book in 1934.
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