Part one of term paper
Since the gilded age of American history historians have debated weather or not the great industrial leader who put our counrty back together in the torent years following the civil war were robber barons or captains of industry. Three of these great men who organized industrial America and changed the American way of life are J. D. Rockefe ...

Part two of term paper
... the most famous of these three men and most deffinently the richest of them is J. D. Rockefeller. Rockefeller acumulated his huge fortune, ranked the largest in American history by Time Magazine, through the oil industy. He stared his capitalistic ventures as a child by lending a farmer who lived by him a sum of money and then having it returned to him at the end of a year with interest. It was this incodent that taught Rockefeller just how powerful capital was. Rockefeller earned his fortune ...