The Men Who Built America- part 1

Vanderbilt decides to sell all of his ships and invests everything he has into this industry.

• Banking

• Railroads

• Refrigeration

Who purchases the devalued shares of those railroad companies?

• Jay Gould

• Jim Fisk

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

Gould and Fisk's plan is highly illegal today and is known as-

• Corporate Espionage

• Watering Down Stock

• Script Bid

In response to those individuals insulting him, he gets back at them by-

• blockading the only rail bridge into New York City.

• tripling the cost to use the only rail bridge into New York City.

• destroying the only rail bridge into New York City.

Sumner Redstone, a majority owner of Viacom and CBS, claims that a successful business owner's objective should always be-

• Winning

• Making Money

• Rewarding Employees

Who implies that Vanderbilt is behind the times when they say that he "should be put out to pasture"?

• Rival railroad owners

• Bank managers

• His stockholders

Vanderbilt had built the largest business of this type in the world.

• Petroleum oil

• Shipping

• Steel manufacturing

Jay Gould and Jim Fisk ____ shares of stock to prevent Vanderbilt's plan to gain control of the Erie Rail Line.

• Destroy

• Recapitalize

• Print Additional

What is Cornelius Vanderbilt's nickname?

• The Admiral

• The Commodore

• The Captain

Vanderbilt wants to control the Erie Line because it connects New York City to-

• Chicago

• Los Angeles

• San Francisco