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1 Captains of Industry or Robber Barons?
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2 Captains of Industry or Robber Barons?
Captain of Industry Business leader whose means of amassing a personal wealth contributed positively to society in some capacity increased productivity providing more jobs acts of philanthropy. Robber Baron Term applied to businessmen who used exploitative practices to amass their wealth exerting control over natural resources, influencing government paying low wages eliminating competition in order to create monopolies Price-fixing

3 John D. Rockefeller

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6 The Central Bank--Why should Uncle Sam establish one, when Uncle Pierpont is already on the job?"

7 John Pierpont Morgan

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9 Andrew Carnegie

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