i really need assistance on this DBQ on the role of capitalists and whether or not with due from the dcuments capitalists were captains of industry or robber barons

Was this the DBQ during the gilded age?

If so, you really have to tell me which side you are on?

Robber Barons, as you can guess basically means they robbed the public, with such things as yellow dog contracts they were anti union, unfair wages.

At the same time, you could just say that all is fair and it was sort of a natural selection of stronger and wealer businesses. Without MOrgan, Rockefeller, and Carnegie, America would not have become an industrial power.

Like I say for all DBQs, try and group the documents together. DBQ tests are designed so that there will be natural groupings of documents - sometimes it's based on what viewpoint they have, or what position they are advocating, or even just the biases their authors hold. If you can group them together, you have a ready-made paragraph structure, so just write about each grouping, decide which one is most compelling, say WHY that one is compelling, and tack on an introduction and conclusion.

For this particular topic, decide whether you think that the great industrialists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were, in an overall sense, good or bad for America and write about why you believe that, using evidence from the documents provided. That is, find a grouping of documents that support your thesis and cite them, find a grouping that oppose your thesis and explain why they're wrong, and use the rest of the documents in the third paragraph in some relevant way. Piece of cake.