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Robber Barons or Captains of Industry? Judging from the primary sources, does the author feel that the entrepreneurs of the Gilded Ages were good or bad. Typically, those who felt that they were bad for society dubbed them “Robber Barons” while others who felt that they were positive for society and the American economy called them “Captains of Industry:. After looking at these sources, you be the judge. Document A Does this prove the industrial leaders were robber barons or captains of industry? How?
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Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?
Judging from the primary sources, does the author feel that the entrepreneurs of the Gilded Ages were good or bad. Typically, those who felt that they were bad for society dubbed them “Robber Barons” while others who felt that they were positive for society and the American economy called them “Captains of Industry:. After looking at these sources, you be the judge.
Document A
Does this prove the industrial leaders were robber barons or captains of industry? How?
Document B
Does this prove the industrialists were robber barons or captains of industry? How?
Document C
“Bosses of the Senate”
Does this prove the industrialists were robber barons or captains of industry? How?
Document D This, then is held to be the duty of the man in Wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance...the man of wealth thus becoming the mere agent and trustee for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.
-Andrew Carnegie, “Wealth”, 1889
Does this prove the industrialists were robber barons or captains of industry? How?
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