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Gilded Age Dinner Party
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What Each Guest Has In Common
- Booker T. Washington and Ida Tarbell both were educators and authors
- Ida Tarbell and Samuel Gompers both tried to stop corruption
- Cornelius Vanderbilt and Eugene V. Debs both were involved in the railroads
- Eugene V. Debs and J.P. Morgan both merged/control the railroads
- J.P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie: Morgan bought the Carnegie Steel Company from Carnegie.
- Andrew Carnegie sold the Carnegie Steel Company to Morgan.
- Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller both started a successful industry that gave them profit.
Gilded Age Dinner Party
The Host:
Cedrick Martinez
John D. Rockefeller
Booker T. Washington
- Interested about what it is like to be a political leader or an industrialist.
- Wants to know more about Booker T. Washington (his life)
- Wants to know how the Standard Oil Company became successful.
- Oil Industrialist, investor, and philanthropist
- Sits next to Andrew Carnegie and Cedrick Martinez.
- Founded the Standard Oil Company
- Was known as the richest person in history.
- Educator, Author, Political Leader
- Sits next to Ida Tarbell and Cedrick Martinez
- He spoke on behalf of the large majority of blacks
- Named as first leader of the new Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Andrew Carnegie
Ida Tarbell
- Teacher, Author, Journalist
- Sits next to Booker T. Washington and
- Was known as one of the leading " Muckrakers "
- Best known for her 1904 book "The History of the Standard Oil Company".
- Industrialist
- Sits next to J.p. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller
- Often regarded the second richest man in history
- Founded the Carnegie Steel Company in Pittsburgh and sold it to J.P. Morgan
Gilded Age Dinner Party Patrons
Hosted By: Cedrick Martinez
- Booker T. Washington
- Eugene V. Debs
- Samuel Gompers
- Ida Tarbell
- J.P. Morgan
- John D. Rockefeller
- Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Andrew Carnegie
Samuel Gompers
J.P. Morgan
- Became labor union leader and key figure in American Labor History
- Served as president of AFL until death
- Sits next to Cornelius Vanderbilt and Ida Tarbell
- Financier and Banker
- Sits next to Andrew Carnegie and Eugene V. Debs
- Bought the Carnegie Steel Company from Carnegie
- Also helped consolidated the railroad industry
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Eugene V. Debs
- Union Leader, one of the founding members of the American Railway Union an the IWW.
- Imprisoned for failing to obey the injunction of the strike about the Pullman Palace Car
- Sits next to Cornelius Vanderbilt and J.P. Morgan
- Entered railroad business in 1857 and eventually gained control of the New York and Harlem railroad.
- Successfully linked Chicago and New York by rail.
- Received little formal schooling.
- Sits next to Eugene V. Debs and Samuel Gompers
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