https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/pgz7gra6sh47 en-us 2017-11-01 19:30:52 UTC 2024-03-20 05:48:54 UTC hello@padlet.com 364398 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/pgz7gra6sh47/wish/203098038 _{Jay Cooke is better remembered for his financing and banking activities than as a railroad tycoon. Similar in nature to how Daniel Drew worked in the railroad industry Cooke, though, was not known for his ruthless nature. It was not until later on in life did Cooke become heavily involved with the financing of the Northern Pacific Railway, the first transcontinental line to the Pacific Northwest.} ]]> 2017-11-02 19:40:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/pgz7gra6sh47/wish/203098038 364398 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/pgz7gra6sh47/wish/203100294 _{In 1864 Fisk became a stockbroker in New York City, and was employed by Daniel Drew as a buyer. He aided Drew in the Erie War against Cornelius Vanderbilt for control of the Erie Railroad. This resulted in Fisk and Jay Gould becoming members of the Erie directorate, and subsequently, a well-planned raid netted Fisk and Gould control of the railroad.}]]> 2017-11-02 19:48:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/pgz7gra6sh47/wish/203100294 364398 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/pgz7gra6sh47/wish/203101522 _{Jay Gould was on born May 27, 1836, in Roxbury, New York. In the 1860s, he became a stockbroker on Wall Street and manipulated the price of stocks. In 1868, he used illegal methods to issue 100,000 shares of new stock for the struggling Erie Railroads.}]]> 2017-11-02 19:52:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/pgz7gra6sh47/wish/203101522 364398 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/pgz7gra6sh47/wish/203103104  _{a Canadian-American railroad executive. He was the chief executive officer of a family of lines headed by the Great Northern Railway, which served a substantial area of the Upper Midwest, the northern Great Plains, and Pacific Northwest. Because of the size of this region and the economic dominance exerted by the Hill lines, Hill became known during his lifetime as "The Empire Builder.}]]> 2017-11-02 19:58:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/pgz7gra6sh47/wish/203103104 364398 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/pgz7gra6sh47/wish/203103878 _{American industrialist John D. Rockefeller was born July 8, 1839, in Richford, New York. He built his first oil refinery near Cleveland and in 1870 incorporated the Standard Oil Company. By 1882 he had a near-monopoly of the oil business in the U.S., but his business practices led to the passing of antitrust laws. Late in life, Rockefeller devoted himself to philanthropy. He died in 1937.}]]> 2017-11-02 20:00:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/pgz7gra6sh47/wish/203103878