Carnegie and Rockefeller

Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller PowerPoint
Sections of presentation: minimum of 25 slides. Tell the story in pictures only.

1.) Biographical material. Give background on their life before they became famous.
Rockefeller: http://www.biography.com/people/john-d-rockefeller-20710159
Carnegie: http://www.biography.com/people/andrew-carnegie-9238756
2.) Their rise to power. How did they build their empires? What strategies did each follow to consolidate, or gather, power and dominate their industries.
a. Examine vertical and horizontal consolidation
b. How they treated their competition
c. How they ran their factories
d. Etc.
http://americanhistory.unomaha.edu/module_display.php?mod_id=130&review=yes
3.) How dominant were they? Use statistics/graphs/charts to prove.
4.) Examine the controversies surrounding them by presenting political cartoons from the late 1800s early 1900s. The cartoonist Thomas Nast is the most famous of the time.
5.) Take a position and persuade the class that each was either a Robber Barron or a Captain of Industry.

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