How did JP Morgan, Rockefeller, etc. build America?

America wasn't discovered, it was built by a group of business-savvy, innovative young men: John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan and Thomas Edison. Explore the lives of America's first captains of industry on Biography.com. read more

By forming the large enterprises that built the American economy into one of largest on the world. They weren't exactly nice about it but they were the ones that rose to the top in transportation, metals, manufacturing, and energy. read more

The Men Who Built America (also known as The Innovators: The Men Who Built America in some international markets) is a six-hour, four-part miniseries docudrama which was originally broadcast on the History Channel in the Fall of 2012, and on the History Channel UK in Spring of 2013. read more