DBQ Robber Barrons
More often than not, America?s antebellum capitalists are accused of being the ?robber barons? of industrial America. The misconception is that these men took advantage of a na?ve and growing economy and reaped its benefits without giving anything in return. True, the majority of America was poor in comparison to the few elites, but the philanthropist efforts and contributions of these men can not be denied. If not for these men and their efforts, there would have been no one to pave the road to America?s industrial domination.