History Channel America Research Paper

Cornelius Vanderbilt was an entrepreneur who attempted to break monopolies in the steamboat industry. Vanderbilt tried to run those who used government subsidies out of business by charging less and providing better service. However, from other perspectives, his methods were immoral. Because of this, the question of whether Vanderbilt was a hero or a villain arose. Even so, it can be seen that Vanderbilt helped the economy of the steamship industry.

Cornelius Vanderbilt was born with some wealth from his father, who was a ferry owner, he made quite a bit of money from it too. When he was younger he joined his father, watching his ways and learning them too. In Vanderbilt’s teen years, he bought his first ferry, which was the start of his big successful business life. He was very,very smart with money, he knew how to get it but he didn’t know how to use it. He grew up to own many steamships and he became the country’s largest steamship owner, then he later in life put all of his riches towards railroads, and he had railroads all across the nation leading from place to place, making money by the minute, because of his success in the railroad business, he became the richest man in the nation. So in a way, Vanderbilt was a captain of industry but he was majority a robber baron.

Cornelius “ Commodore” Vanderbilt is known as the man who industrialized the American railroad. He owned and and operated a majority of railroads in the country and was one of the richest men in America. When he past, his empire was given to his son. William H. Vanderbilt is shown in Document 1, which is an interview with the Chicago Daily News in 1882. It shows how ruthless the Vanderbilt empire truly is. William denounces the public for their use of the limited express, saying that he does not care for anyone's wellbeing other than his own. William Vanderbilt speaks on how railroads are not built for the public but instead for investors, which shows his materialistic nature. This information is coming first hand by William Vanderbilt himself, as he speaks of his consumers as if they

Cornelius Vanderbilt was a steamship tycoon with a large fleet; who was known as the Commodore, during that time in history the highest rank in our nation's navy was a Commodore. Vanderbilt wanted the Pacific Company to pay him a toll on all business done in America with California.

Cornelius Vanderbilt gained much of his wealth and prominence through hard work in the railroad and shipping industries (Cohen n. pag). BY the time he died, his railroad company he owned was worth well over one-hundred fifty million dollars. Most of his estate was left to his son William, George’s father ("Vanderbilt, Cornelius [1794-1877]" n. pag). While in control of the Vanderbilt fortune, William doubled the size (The Vanderbilt

As a country, America has gone through many political changes. Leaders have come and gone, all of them having different objectives and plans for the future. One period of time in which leaders sought change was 1865 which was the time period known as Reconstruction. Reconstruction was a time period of many different leaders, different goals and different accomplishments. Many debate whether Reconstruction was a success or failure. Success is an event which accomplishes its intended purpose, which Reconstruction did, but during this process of accomplishment, evil came about. There was many good things that came from the Reconstruction era which leads me to believe that it was a success, these accomplishments were; Reunification of the Union , more laws came about along with the protection of African Americans and the Enforcement acts, the Freedmen's Bureau was created along with an education system, and the Compromise of 1877.

At the age of 11 (in 1805), Vanderbilt dropped out of school to work for his father for a few years by providing transportation services. These services were low level, but in 1810, they proved to be very profitable for Vanderbilt. Using a loan from his parents, he started his own passenger and freight service, he beat a lot

William Vanderbilt was an American businessman whose wealth was derived from the thriving railroad industry of the late nineteenth century. He was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1821 and died at age 64 on December 8, 1885. During this time, he led the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, the Canada Southern Railway, and the Michigan Central Railroad. He took over as president for these organizations for his father. His father, Cornelius Vanderbilt, brought the railroad business to his family. Upon his death, William Vanderbilt was the richest man in the world. His success can be attributed to his ability to capitalize on the transportation revolution that swept America years ago, and only remained to expand and grow with the

In the late 1700s, the United States had began to split into two factions: Federalists and Antifederalists. Factions are groups of citizens united by a common interest. The reasoning behind the differing views of how the government works across the world was best said by Locke “Men are equal in a natural sense, but society establishes many dimensions that are unequal”. (Barbour and Wright, 2017). In the states, Federalists wanted a strong central government while anti-federalists wanted a weak one. “The Georgians, for example, wanted a strong central authority to provide military protection for their huge, underpopulated state against the Creek Confederacy; Jerseymen and Connecticuters wanted to escape from economic bondage to New York; the Virginians hoped to establish a system which would give that great state its rightful place in the councils of the republic” (Roche, 800). The one thing they agreed on was having George Washington as president. George Washington tried to be a neutral leader of the United States and suggested for the states to stay together rather than divide into factions. “Thomas Jefferson is credited as stating: “North and South will hang together if they have you to hang on””(Jamison, 2016).

In the early 1800s, the United States was separated. The nation was expanding westward, but moving goods between states was difficult, slow, and costly. There was also corruption in the nation. The nation was run by elites, despite the fact that the majority of the country was a middle to lower class. Then, in 1828, Andrew Jackson became president. The United States, during Jackson’s presidency, expanded economically, became increasingly divided, and grew to be more democratic.

Cornelius Vanderbilt was a self-made multi-millionaire known for shipping and railroad who end up being one of richest Americans of the 19th century. Cornelius was born on May 27, 1794, in the Port Richmond area of Staten Island, New York. Cornelius was at first a passenger ferry business in New York harbor with one boat, then started his own steamship organization, and eventually controlling Hudson River Traffic. Cornelius likewise gave the primary rail benefit between New York and Chicago. When he passed away in 1877, Vanderbilt had amassed the biggest fortune aggregated in the U.S. around then. According to biography.com, Vanderbilt is regarded as one of America's leading businessmen and entrepreneur and is attributed for forming the present-day

Cornelius Vanderbilt was the most powerful railroad baron. He earned a fortune for himself in the steamship line. He also combined the New York and Harlem and New York and Hudson estate ferry boat operations. He established a connection between New York and Albany to make Lake Shore and Michigan Southern link Buffalo with Chicago. When he died he owned and operated nearly 4500 miles of track between New York City and most of the important cities in the Midwest. He left his fortune to his son, unlike the others he did not donate to many organizations. The only contribution he gave was to support the, now, Vanderbilt College.

Cornelius Vanderbilt was a steamship and railroad tycoon. He made millions in the steamship business before turning to the promising railroad industry. He began to take capital from the steamship business to buy railroads, starting with the New York and Harlem Railroad in 1862. Vanderbilt eventually amassed over $100 million from his railroad empire and his wealth and power was virtually untouchable. He was a ruthless businessman, once saying to a competitor “You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I will ruin you.” His New York Central rail line operated from New York to Chicago along more than 4,500 miles of track at the time of his death.

Though the military battles of the Civil War may have been exclusively waged on United States’ soil, the outcome of the war was heavily dependent on the diplomatic battles waged in foreign capitals. Because of the proliferation of new technologies and the harnessing of steam power to operate everything from the printing press to ships, the United States had finally become the “City on the Hill” that John Winthrop had predicted it would be. As the Civil War tore America apart, “the eyes of all people [were] upon” the country, marking the conflict as an international crisis that the leadership of all nations, from England with its vast empire to San Marino with its 24 square miles of territory, inherently had a stake in. In the end, the South’s overestimation of the power of cotton on the world stage and the North’s successful, though delayed, narrative of freedom and free labor led to Union victory.

The invention of the television has had an impact on all aspects of American's lives. It has affected how we work, interact with others, and our foreign relations. One part of American society that it has especially affected is presidential elections. Television has impacted who is elected and why they were elected. Since the 1960's television has served as a link between the American public and presidential elections that allows the candidate to appear more human and accountable for their actions; consequently this has made television a positive influence on presidential elections. But it has also had a negative affect on elections, making presidential candidates seem like celebrities at times and making it easier to publicize mistakes