Gilded+Age

=**__Gilded Age __**=

In [|American history], the **Gilded Age** refers to substantial growth in population in the United States and extravagant displays of wealth and excess of America's upper-class during the post-[|Civil War] and post-[|Reconstruction era], in the late [|19th century] ([|1865]-[|1905]). In Chapter 15 we have examined how the wealth polarization derived primarily from industrial and population expansion. This expansion also created a substantial gulf between the working class and those businessmen of the [|Second Industrial Revolution]. Their business expansion created industrial towns and cities in the [|Northeast]. The creation of these new factories contributed to the establishment of an ethnically diverse industrial working class which produced the wealth owned by rising super-rich industrialists and financiers such as [|Cornelius Vanderbilt], [|John D. Rockefeller], [|Andrew W. Mellon], [|Andrew Carnegie], and [|J.P. Morgan].

=Directions:=

You will be answering some questions about the above mentioned entrepreneurs in Google Docs. The questions are listed below. Copy them and paste the questions into a new Google Doc so you can begin your research and answer the questions. You must answer all of the questions for THREE of the men mentioned above. So click on their name, research the answers to the questions, fill in the answers in the Google Doc.

Questions:
 * 1) Identify the name of the entrepreneur you've selected.
 * 2) What were the years that he lived?
 * 3) What country did he come from or his ancestors come from?
 * 4) What was his occupation? Explain what it is.
 * 5) What is/were the name(s) of his business(es)?
 * 6) In what did his business specialize?
 * 7) How did they create their monopolistic empire? (Read and elaborate here. This should be a minimum or 10 sentences)
 * 8) During their career as entrepreneur, identify //and explain// at least one MAJOR event that took place. (Minimum 5 sentences)
 * 9) How did their career as entrepreneur end? Also mention the year if applicable.
 * 10) Identify any buildings, colleges, libraries, companies, structures, memorials, etc. that still carry his name to this day.