Research Links

Robber Barons Mock Trial — Research Links

Research Starters:
**NOTE: These web links are just a starting point. You will need to find additional information to be add greater depth to your testimony.

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act (Anti Monopoly Law Summary):
http://www.linfo.org/sherman.html

Defense Team:
• Andrew Carnegie:
https://www.biography.com/people/andrew-carnegie-9238756
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andrew-Carnegie
https://www.carnegie.org/interactives/foundersstory/#!/
http://www.history.com/topics/andrew-carnegie
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/carnegie/aa_carnegie_phil_1.html
http://www.history.com/shows/men-who-built-america/videos/the-men-who-built-america-andrew-carnegie

• J.P. Morgan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._P._Morgan
https://www.jpmorgan.com/pages/jpmorgan/about/history/month/mar
http://www.history.com/topics/john-pierpont-morgan
http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/outlines/history-2005/growth-and-transformation/jp-morgan-and-finance-capitalism.php
http://www.history.com/shows/men-who-built-america/videos/the-men-who-built-america-from-rich-to-richer
http://www.ushistory.org/us/36d.asp

• John D. Rockefeller:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller
http://www.forbes.com/sites/carlodonnell/2014/07/11/the-rockefellers-the-legacy-of-historys-richest-man/
http://www.history.com/topics/john-d-rockefeller
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h957.html
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/teachers/lesson_plans/pdfs/unit7_7.pdf

• William Tweed:
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3052
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5733/

• Herbert Spenser and Social Darwinism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Darwinism
https://www.britannica.com/topic/social-Darwinism

• Henry Clay Frick:
http://www.frick.org/collection/history/henry_clay_frick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Strike
http://www.history.com/topics/homestead-strike

• Pinkerton Detectives:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Strike
http://www.dickmeister.com/id86.html

Prosecution Team:
• US Steel Workers:
http://andrewcarn.blogspot.com/2016/01/economy.html
https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/us-homestead-steel-workers-strike-protect-unions-and-wages-1892

• Eugene V. Debs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs
http://www.history.com/topics/eugene-v-debs
http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/spusa/1901/0330-debs-carnegiecrimes.pdf

• Homestead Striker and Union Leader:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Strike
http://www.history.com/topics/homestead-strike
http://www.dickmeister.com/id86.html
http://www.aflcio.org/About/Our-History/Key-Events-in-Labor-History/1892-Homestead-Strike

• Arsene Pujo - Pujo Committee “Money Trust” Wall Street Banking Cartel Investigation https://publicintelligence.net/pujo-committee-money-trust-wall-street-banking-cartel-investigation-1912-1913/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars%C3%A8ne_Pujo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pujo_Committee
http://everything.explained.today/Pujo_Committee/

• Ida Tarbell:
http://sites.allegheny.edu/tarbell/
http://sites.allegheny.edu/tarbell/fromtarbell/rockefeller/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-woman-who-took-on-the-tycoon-651396/?no-ist

• Lincoln Steffens:
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3052
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5733/
http://chnm.gmu.edu/7tah/unitdocs/unit7/lesson2/politicalmachines.pdf
http://objectofhistory.org/objects/brieftour/votingmachine/?order=3