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Robber Barons:

Who were the Robber Barons

Famous Industrialist (Carnegie, Ford, Rockefeller, and Morgan)

Robber Barons and the Age of Steel (Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Hill, Rockefeller, John Astor, Stanford, Gould, Morgan, and Fisk)

Industrialists:

Railroad Tycoons

General Sites:

General Information and Timelines

Biographies of the Industrial Revolution

Inventors of the Industrial Revolution 2

Railroads in the late 19th Century

Affects and Consequences

The history of the Industrial Revolution in America and its effect on economy and society

Rise of Industrial America 1876-1900