The Industrial Age

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The Industrial Age by Mind Map: The Industrial Age

1. John D. Rockefeller

1.1. Founded the standard oil company and became one of the wealthiest men in the world and a major philanthropist; Rockefeller controlled most of the nation's oil refineries by eliminating his competition

1.2. He created a monopoly but it was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was passed to limit his power and ban monopolies

2. J.P. Morgan

2.1. One of the most powerful bankers during his time; followed in his fathers footsteps to then finance railroads and helped organize U.S. Steel, General Electric and other major corporations; He also helped stabilize markets during the panic of 1907 as well as some other economic crisises

3. Henry Ford

3.1. 1903, he established the Ford Motor Company and five years later the first Model T was introduced

3.2. He inntroduced mass production methods like the world’s first moving assembly line for cars

4. Cornelius Vanderbilt

4.1. He was a self-made multi-millionaire who became one of the wealthiest men in the 19th century

4.2. Vanderbilt originally had a successful steamboat business but decided to put millions into merging local railroads into the New York Central Railroad (1867), he profited greatly from the railroad business and made it more efficient.

4.2.1. Railroads not only promoted settlement on the Great Plains, but they linked the West with the East to create one great national market.

5. Andrew Carnegie

5.1. Profited off of the steel industry and became a major philanthropist. Born in 1835 in Scotland, Carnegie immigrated to the United States and worked his way up from poverty to become the superintendent of a Pennsylvania railroad

5.2. In the 1870s, he started manufacturing steel in Pittsburgh and soon outdistanced his competitors by a combination of salesmanship and the use of the latest technology; Carnegie employed a business strategy known as vertical integration, in which a company would control every stage of the industrial process

5.3. Carnegie sold his company in 1900 for more than $400 million to a new steel combination headed by J. P. Morgan.

6. Work Cited

6.1. Amsco

6.2. history.com

6.3. britannica.com