https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x American Dynasty en-us 2017-02-24 14:36:30 UTC 2025-09-26 17:32:53 UTC hello@padlet.com 18mmartinez1 https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156032031 laid thousands and thousands of railroads. Created a system for the national market ]]> 2017-02-24 14:42:29 UTC https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156032031 18mmartinez1 https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156032295 2017-02-24 14:43:00 UTC https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156032295 18mmartinez1 https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156032438 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 ]]> 2017-02-24 14:43:18 UTC https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156032438 18mmartinez1 https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156033182 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.]]> 2017-02-24 14:45:04 UTC https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156033182 18mmartinez1 https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156033888 More and more steam boats came about after Cornelius Vanderbilt.

]]> 2017-02-24 14:46:52 UTC https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156033888 18mmartinez1 https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156035319 2017-02-24 14:50:14 UTC https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156035319 18mmartinez1 https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156036321 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]]> 2017-02-24 14:52:48 UTC https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156036321 18mmartinez1 https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156037030 William H. V. Began essentially began to expand the NY Central. ]]> 2017-02-24 14:54:41 UTC https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156037030 18mmartinez1 https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156039913 2017-02-24 15:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156039913 18mmartinez1 https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156040549 One of the Vanderbilt's home in the summer ]]> 2017-02-24 15:05:43 UTC https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156040549 18mmartinez1 https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156042538 was a wealthy socialite who used her fortune to advance the women's rights movement of the early 1900's after her husbands death. ]]> 2017-02-24 15:11:47 UTC https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156042538 18mmartinez1 https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156044108 Decided to build Biltmore house after his trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was built with the help of landscape Frederick Law Holmestead. ]]> 2017-02-24 15:16:41 UTC https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156044108 18mmartinez1 https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156050568 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. ]]> 2017-02-24 15:35:57 UTC https://padlet.com/18mmartinez1/6jtbw8a9ce8x/wish/156050568