Robber Barons Or Captains Of Industry

Part I of Essay
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 ind ....

Part II of Essay
.... 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 that he would let some one else spend millions to blindly drill into the ground looking for black gold while he could make million ....