Jason "Jay" Gould by Victoria Burke https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g Robber Baron of the Railways en-us 2017-01-13 15:57:27 UTC 2023-03-21 04:42:03 UTC hello@padlet.com Biography vburke00 https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g/wish/147686603 2017-01-17 21:18:44 UTC https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g/wish/147686603 vburke00 https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g/wish/147686982 2017-01-17 21:20:47 UTC https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g/wish/147686982 Railway Industry vburke00 https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g/wish/147687113 2017-01-17 21:21:24 UTC https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g/wish/147687113 Dirty Money vburke00 https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g/wish/147687465 2017-01-17 21:23:20 UTC https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g/wish/147687465 Jay Gould vburke00 https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g/wish/147687563 2017-01-17 21:23:50 UTC https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g/wish/147687563 Charitable Value vburke00 https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g/wish/147688047 2017-01-17 21:26:39 UTC https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g/wish/147688047 vburke00 https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g/wish/147688604 2017-01-17 21:29:58 UTC https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g/wish/147688604 vburke00 https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g/wish/147699391 -The railways of the United States were primarily fought in-between Vanderbilt and Gould.
-Railroads spanned across the country and provided cheap transport for people and goods.
-Land was often sold cheap by the government which led to the large expansion.

]]> 2017-01-17 22:35:26 UTC https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g/wish/147699391 vburke00 https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g/wish/147699743 -Born on May 27, 1836
-Died on December 2, 1862
-He started out slowly buying railroads stocks.
-He soon became the manager of the Rensselaer and Saratoga Railways, than the owner of the Rutland and Washington Railway.
-He soon became apart of the "Boss" Tweed Tamany Ring, forging stocks and bribing state legislatures. 
-Gould also became the director of the Erie Canal in which he sold those stocks at high prices only to make the price drop to buy them back. ]]> 2017-01-17 22:38:29 UTC https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g/wish/147699743 vburke00 https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g/wish/147700795 -Gould acquired his large empire by the forging of railway stocks then bribing the state legislatures to take a blind side. 
- Gould play an major role of the "Black Friday" of Sept. 24, 1869.
-Gould would weaken competing companies in order to buy them for himself.
- He created a bundle of business that in total were worth 77 million dollars.  

]]> 2017-01-17 22:48:10 UTC https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g/wish/147700795 vburke00 https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g/wish/147702068 2017-01-17 23:02:37 UTC https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g/wish/147702068 vburke00 https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g/wish/147702406 -Gould was known to donate privately to universities and churches and other public programs. 
-A small part of his will was saved for charity donations.]]> 2017-01-17 23:07:44 UTC https://padlet.com/vburke00/4hq19ni1tm8g/wish/147702406