Big Businesses
Industry during the late 1800's started to prosper. Some but very few Americans got very rich from this. The other Americans just barely had enough money to get by. Two very important industrial giants were Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. Both of them were known to be "robber barons". These are people who get rich off their workers and from the public. Learn more about Carnegie and Rockefeller and how their businesses were so successful.