Robber Baron Document Rankings

Power Rank 1:  Document Number: 16

Why do you believe it best represents the era you have been studying?.

Document 16 would have been a representive of an individual who believed that having wealth was not only not a bad thing, but was a good and essential thing for the growth of the country.

Power Rank 2:  Document Number:  12
Why do you believe it best represents the era you have been studying?


Document 12 represents a person's view that the products of labor should go to the laborers and that much of what the wealthy capitalists did was hurting workers and the country as a whole.

Power Rank 3:  Document Number: 5

Why do you believe it best represents the era you have been studying?

Big cororation trusts were extremely powerful and looked at the government as unimportant and unable to control them.

Power Rank 4:  Document Number: 9

Why do you believe it best represents the era you have been studying?

This document represents an attitude that most public would consider as a robber baron. Vanderbilt didn't care about the public and was in business only to make a profit.

Power Rank 5:  Document Number: 18

Why do you believe it best represents the era you have been studying?

This is an example of the good that could be done by extremely wealthy individuals.  Rockefeller gave over half a billion to various charities which benefited many thousands of people.