Robber Barons

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Submitted by mndymtchll on May 5, 2008

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Robber Barons

Some people view them as the “Captains of Industry” and others view them as “Robber Barons”, I don’t like to use stereo types, I think it is just judging people, which the only one with that right is our God and savior Jesus Christ. Four of the main men that we discussed are Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Cornelius Vanderbilt, all of whom made their money from pursuing different anticompetitive and unfair practices.
Andrew Carnegie, born November 25, 1835 and died august 11, 1919, was Scottish-born American industrialist. He was a businessman and a philanthropist. Andrew Carnegie was the founder of Carnegie Steel Company which later became U.S....

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