The Rise of Industrial Capitalism

AP US History· difficulty 3/5

The "Robber Barons" / "Captains of Industry" included

  • A

    Theodore Roosevelt (politics), Woodrow Wilson (academia), William Taft (judiciary)

  • B

    Frederick Douglass (abolition), Harriet Tubman (Underground Railroad), Sojourner Truth (rights)

  • C

    Andrew Carnegie (steel), John D. Rockefeller (oil), J.P. Morgan (finance), Cornelius Vanderbilt (railroads)

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  • D

    Abraham Lincoln (politics), Ulysses S. Grant (military), William Seward (diplomacy)

Explanation

They built massive industrial monopolies; views of them ranged from praise to harsh criticism.

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