robber=bad captain=good
Robber Barons
John W Mackay was the opposite of a Robber Baron. He brought competition to the telegraph industry and reduced the price of telegraphs. He treated his workers fairly. The Robber Barons established cartels and cheated their workers. They ran sweat shops. They kept prices unnecessarily high. They destroyed competition.
They were associated with the railroads.
They were the richest men of their time and they controlled the oil, railroad, and banking of the nation. They lived like kings and paid their workers as little as they could. Carnegie came from Scotland with nothing, but through ruthless means he worked to become the richest. Rockefeller and Morgan were also ruthless in their dealings. This made them Robber barons stealing from the poor to make themselves richer. We have robber barons too with the 1% richest today.
During the medival Times, The Robber Barons cheated workers out of pay, consented to a higher nobility to over tax their workers and often forced free labor.
Robber barons
Business leaders such as John D. Rockefeller were called 'robber barons because he made huge profits by paying his workers low wages.
Robber barons were important because their terrible actions led to improvements. The union movement came about because of the way robber barons treated workers. This led to a better life for workers.
becauses hes a good guy
Robber Barons
Robber Barons
Robber Barons. Or Captains of Industry. I'm not sure which one.
robber=bad captain=good
Robber barons where men such as big tycoons who held monopolies over others, meaning robber barons where greedy/selfish people who did not give back to society or treat people as well as "captains," captains were those wealthy that were looked upon as leaders.
During the Gilded Age, people who gained their wealth by stealing from the poor were known as "robber barons." These were individuals who amassed great fortunes through unethical business practices such as exploitation of workers and monopolistic control of industries.
Robber Barons