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As the family inheritance spread b/w more and more decendants. New York Central was undergoing changes. The transport business began to peak in the late 1920's but freight soon declined and by the end of world war 2 trucks, barges and airplanes and buses vut into industry. All this happened because of the tax.

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Decided to build Biltmore house after his trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was built with the help of landscape Frederick Law Holmestead.

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was a wealthy socialite who used her fortune to advance the women's rights movement of the early 1900's after her husbands death.

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One of the Vanderbilt's home in the summer

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William H. V. Began essentially began to expand the NY Central.

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Cornelius Vanderbilt's death was rigtht at the beginning of the gilded age Jan 4, 1877. His death was worth more than 100 million dollars

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More and more steam boats came about after Cornelius Vanderbilt.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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American business magnet, self-made millionaire and philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping and became the most wealthiest Americans of the 19th century. He gained a reputation of being competitive and ruthless.

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When Vanderbilt's were well known and responsible for a lot of the Gold. The rich enjoyed their fortunes. Everyone was trying to outdo one another with glamour and money. Many felt they had to show their essential wealth to NY society

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laid thousands and thousands of railroads. Created a system for the national market