The Industrial Era was the age of entrepreneurs and monopolies, power and wealth, haves and have-nots, in which a few thrived and feasted on the barely-living. The powerful men that controlled the business environment through the turn of the 20th century have set the standards for the business leaders of today. Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and John Pierpont Morgan also created controversy over how much power one person should be able to have in …showed first 75 words of 2278 total…

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