The Task
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    In order to get the invitation to the Fair, you must form a company that will become one of the top ten businesses in the U.S. by 1904.  You and your classmates are definitely up for the challenge because you want to go home.  In order to do so, you need to immediately start formulating your plan for success.

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In order to achieve your goal you must use your knowledge of history to:

    1.  Research nineteenth-century industries and identify which were the most successful.

    2.  Determine what products and resources were in great demand, and explain why.

    3.  Develop a company that will provide a resource, product, or service that will ensure you great financial rewards.

    4.  Apply innovative nineteenth-century technologies in order to maximize your productivity.

    At the Fair, you will have a chance to present a ten-minute poster or PowerPoint presentation that explains why your company should be chosen as one of the top ten businesses.  A panel of judges will decide if you are successful enough to take that first ride and guarantee your only chance to go home.

Some examples of successful industries and industrialists are:

	Banking and Finance	Andrew William Mellon	James Fisk	Jay Gould	J.P. Morgan
	Clothing and Department Stores	Levi Strauss	Montgomery Ward	FW Woolworth	Sears & Roebuck
	Coal	Henry Huttleston Rogers	William Nelson Page
	Communication	Alexander Graham Bell	George Westinghouse	Samuel F.B. Morse
	Electricity	Thomas Edison	George Westinghouse
	Engineering	John Roebling
	Oil	JD Rockefeller
	Publishing	William Randolph Hearst	Joseph Pulitzer
	Railroads	Andrew Carnegie	Cornelius Vanderbilt	Jay Gould	Edward Henry Harriman
	Real estate	John Jacob Astor
	Shipping	Cornelius Vanderbilt
	Steel	Andrew Carnegie	Henry Clay Frick
	Tobacco	James Buchanan Duke

If you would like to know more about these tycoons, click on the money.

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