Industry Padlet by Hayley Young

Andrew Carnegie

813176 — 2017-10-05 17:50:43 UTC

Andrew Carnegie was born in The United Kingdom on November 25, 1835. Carnegie was one of the first businessmen to gain fortune during the industrialization. Selling/making steel was how he made his money. In 1899 his company "the Carnegie Steel" made more steel then Britain. Carnegie's net-worth was 309 Billion US dollars, that amount just says how well Carnegie's company was doing. To conclude my summary, Andrew Carnegie attempted to control as much as the steel industry as he could thus leading to his success.

John D. Rockefeller

813176 — 2017-10-05 18:03:26 UTC

Born on July 8, 1839 growing up to build his own oil company, we are going to be discussing John D Rockefeller. Rockefeller basically dominated the oil industry because his company controlled 90 percent of it. He bought out competitors and was able to raise prices far above normal levels. Critics started to call businessmen like Rockefeller "Robber Barons" because they were taking advantage of their situations. Since this started to happen people wanted the Sherman Antitrust Act, but the government never enforced it.

J.P Morgan

813176 — 2017-10-05 18:14:05 UTC

On April 18, 1837 in Connecticut the future of Chase Banks was born. J.P Morgan was not only an American banker, he also financed railroads, helped organize U.S steel, Generate Electricity, and other major corporations. Morgan ended up following his wealthy father into the banking business in the late 1850's. Morgan used his influence to help stabilize American Finical markets. In Summary, J.P Morgan was such an excellent man and brilliant man.

Tyson Yerkes

813176 — 2017-10-08 21:25:12 UTC

The American fancier Charles Tyson was born in Philadelphia on June 25, 1837. Tyson Yerkes had a major part in developing mass-transit systems in Chicago and London. Before that Yerkes got his education at Central High School. Yerkes made two books; "Edgar: Uncommon Land" and "Uncommon Lives". Finally, in 1865 Yerkes became a banker but specialized in selling municipal, state, and government bonds. Yerkes spend the next ten years rebuilding his fortune.

William A Clark

813176 — 2017-10-08 21:58:38 UTC

An American politician and entrepreneur, born on January 8, 1839, William
A. Clark. Clark was also involved with mining, banking and railroads, but later on Clark became the United States Senator from Montana. He was in office from March 4, 1899 to May 15, 1990. Clark got his education from of the University of California, Los Angles. In summary, Clark played a very important role in today's history.

Sources

813176 — 2017-10-10 03:33:06 UTC

All of my Sources were from Wikipedia.org

5448401 — 2026-02-16 05:06:24 UTC

Good Job 👍