Robber Barons and Factory life

Factory life

Robber Barons

Andrew Carnegie

Immigrants

Irish and Italians/People from Western and Eastern Europea

Conditions

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Dirty

Hot, humid

low pay

Child labor

Long hours

work houses

U.S. Steel

Rags to riches

$1 Billion sold business

Gave large portion of wealth to charities like orphanages, libraries

Dance halls, Music halls

John D. Rockefeller

JP Morgan

Cornelius Vanderbilt

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