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Industrial Tycoon Webquest:
​Robber Barron or Philanthropist

You have each been assigned a historical figure to study and determine if they are a Robber Baron and/or a Philanthropist.  As an introduction, watch the history channel video on your assigned figure.  Use the links below to do your research and complete the Graphic Organizer.
Video on J.P. Morgan
J. Pierpont Morgan
A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
--J. P. Morgan 

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
--J. P. Morgan 

  • Labor Union versus Morgan
  • Brief Biography
  • Biography of Morgan 
  • First Public Demonstration of Edison's Light Bulb 
  • Morgan Finances Edison
  • Morgan's Wealth
John D. Rockefeller
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
--John D. Rockefeller 

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
--John D. Rockefeller

  • John D. Rockefeller Timeline
  • The Rockefellers People
  • Biography of John D. Rockefeller, Senior
  • Paragraph on Rockefeller's cornering of the market and game
  • Annotated Timeline
  • Rockefeller's Mark on America: Interactive Map
  • Critical Letter to the NY Times about Rockefeller
  • Letters to Rockefeller Requesting Donations
  • Standard Oil of New Jersey
  • Rockefeller's Critics
  • Rockefeller, Robber Baron?
Andrew Carnegie
It shall be the rule for the workman to be Partner with Capital, the man of affairs giving his business experience, the working man in the mill his mechanical skill, to the company, both owners of the shares and so far equally interested in the success of their joint efforts.
—Andrew Carnegie
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • Andrew Carnegie Grows Up Working 
  • Andrew Carnegie and His Parents 
  • Andrew Carnegie Philanthropist 
    • The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie 
    • Letters about the Homestead Strike
    • Information about the Carnegie Mansion
    • Carnegie Biography
    • Interactive Timeline
    • The Two Andrews
    • Scotland to America
    • Welcome to Pittsburgh
  • How to Succeed in Life by Andrew Carnegie 
  • The Gospel of Wealth
Cornelius Vanderbilt
I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life.
—Cornelius Vanderbilt

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.
—Cornelius Vanderbilt
  • Cartoon, "The Great Race for the Western Stakes"
  • Vanderbilt Mansion
  • Business Biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt 
  • "Cornelius Vanderbilt" and "The Erie Railroad Wars"
  • About Vanderbilt
  • Vanderbilt, Robber Baron?
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    • About
    • Submit an Inquiry
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  • SSE in Context
    • Scholarly Resources
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  • SSE Student Programs
    • NHD Project >
      • Research
      • NHD in History
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    • Model UN
    • Youth and Government
  • Webquests
    • NH Veterans Project
    • Civil Rights Webquest >
      • Objectives
      • Timeline
      • People of the Movement >
        • Martin Luther King Jr.
        • Malcolm X
        • Rosa Parks
        • Orval Faubus
        • George Wallace
        • Bull Conner
    • Industrial Tycoon Webquest
  • Blog
  • SS Courses
    • US HISTORY
    • GOVERNMENT
    • PSYCHOLOGY
    • ECONOMICS >
      • Economic Evolutions
      • Economic Policy
      • Economic Problems and Solutions
    • WORLD HISTORY
    • GEOGRAPHY >
      • Global Patterns Of Human Migration
  • SSE Resources
    • Stanford History Education Group
    • Remedial Herstory
    • C3 Teachers
    • Choices Program
    • Next Gen Personal Finance
    • Civics101 Podcast
    • Edcitement
    • iCivics
    • News Matters
    • Newslea
    • Teaching Tolerance
    • GimKit (Games)