1. Big Business part 1a

2. Milton S. Hershey
-making milk chocolate for the masses
-Lancaster Caramel Co.
-developed his own recipe for milk chocolate
that was affordable.
-built world’s largest chocolate company
in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

3. George Pullman
-created the sleeper car
-made 1st class train travel more comfortable
-Pullman Palace Car Co.
-Built Pullman, Illinois- -a town for the workers
of the Pullman Co.

4. E.I. DuPont
-French immigrant
-started milling gun powder in 1802
-company later branched into nitroglycerin and dynamite
-accused of having a monopoly in explosives industry
-branched into lacquers, chemicals, teflon, lucite, lycra,
kevlar

5. The protectors of our industries
This political cartoon portrays the early entrepreneurs "getting fat" off the labor of the workers.

6. Armour Brothers
-Armour Co.
-Chicago, Illinois
-all products made from animals and
animal by-products
-meat, glue, fertilizers, hairbrushes,
oleomargarine
-known for low wages and dangerous
working conditions

7. Gustavus Franklin Swift
-Swift and Co.
-meatpacking in the Midwest (Chicago, IL)
-created the 1st practical refrigerated railcar
-”everything but the squeal!”
-glue, soap, hairbrushes, buttons, fertilizers,
oleomargarine, knife handles, medical products