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Robber Barons - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 14 times
- The average score is 7 of 18
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| The founder of Standard Oil, he became the richest person in the United States and controlled a 90% monopoly in American oil production. He is the namesake of the Midtown Manhattan complex where they light the iconic Christmas tree. | John D. Rockefeller | 82%
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| This Scotsman built up a steel company in his name, which would form the basis of the U.S. Steel Corporation. After his ventures, he devoted his life to philanthropy, building 2,509 libraries and an iconic New York City performance venue. | Andrew Carnegie | 73%
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| Founder of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post. | Jeff Bezos | 73%
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| Founder of Microsoft and the first centibillionaire. | Bill Gates | 64%
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| Nicknamed "the Commodore", he was the first tycoon of the railroad industry, along with running the Staten Island Ferry for a while. He provided a $1 million endowment to the university in Nashville, Tennessee, that now bears his name. | Cornelius Vanderbilt | 64%
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| The current richest person in the world, and CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and X.com. | Elon Musk | 64%
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| Head of the banking firm that bore his name, he was a dominant force on Wall Street during the Gilded Age, and drove industrial consolidation in the United States. The banking firm today still bears his name, and is the largest bank in the United States and largest in the world by market capitalization. | J. P. Morgan | 64%
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| Co-founder of Facebook, and CEO and chairman of Meta. | Mark Zuckerberg | 64%
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| Politician and businessman who served non-consecutive terms as president of the United States from 2017-2021 and 2025-. | Donald Trump | 55%
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| This German immigrant was initially a luthier before joining the fur industry after the American Revolutionary War, building a monopoly of the fur trade and becoming the first multi-millionaire in the United States. | John Jacob Astor | 36%
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| He founded a coke manufacturing company, and was chairman of the steel company founded by Answer #2, both of which were mergers of U.S. Steel. Upon his death, he donated his enormous art collection to create a museum in Upper East Side. He was also partially responsible for the alterations to the dam that caused the Johnstown flood. | Henry Clay Frick | 27%
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| His financial backing led to the creation of the Aluminum Company of American and the Gulf Oil Company, as well as Union Steel, which was one of the mergers of U.S. Steel. He served as secretary of the Treasury from 1921 to 1932. | Andrew Mellon | 9%
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| Known as "Big Jim", "Diamond Jim", and "Jubilee Jim", he alongside Jay Gould befriended President Grant in the Black Friday scandal, where they attempted to use Grant's name in a scheme to corner the New York gold market. He was assassinated in 1872 in relation to his business dealings. | James Fisk | 9%
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| He opened a banking house in Philadelphia, which the state of Pennsylvania borrowed $3 million ($104,990,000) from to fund Civil War efforts. He was the first major investment banker in the United States and the creator of the first wire house firm. | Jay Cooke | 9%
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| He founded the Central Pacific Railroad, which constructed the west side of the Transcontinental Railroad. He was briefly the president and controlling shareholder of Wells Fargo in 1869. | Charles Crocker | 0%
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| This magnate worked for the steel company of Answer #2 until he left to run the Bethlehem Shipbuilding and Steel Company, which became Bethlehem Steel, and became the second largest-steel manufacturer in America. He was the first president of U.S. Steel. | Charles M. Schwab | 0%
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| This oil tycoon drilled the first successful oil well in the Los Angeles City Oil Field, which set off the petroleum boom in Southern California. His holdings developed into Pan American Petroleum & Transport Company, one of the largest oil companies in the world in the 1920s. He was implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal to bribe Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall. | Edward L. Doheny | 0%
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| This financier bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1874, and secured stocks in every single profitable field. He also served as a member of the House as a Whig from 1853-1857. | Russell Sage | 0%
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