Andrew Hamilton

A Suit of Lies Boss Tweed was an individual who began well, just like most people. However, after he began to enjoy power and money so much that he was willing to go along with the standards of the Gilded Age, he became nasty and defiant, as evidenced by two of his quotes referenced by several websites. Before William Magear Tweed was adversely affected by his authority, he was an ordinary man. He was born in April of 1823, and grew up in New York City. Like many Americans, Tweed had European…

After the civil war ended, White Americans decided upon the expansion across the continent. Although some of the parts were already occupied they went through with it anyways. As they made their way towards the western states of the country, they intruded amongst the Native Americans. Throughout this process the Americans crushed the Native Americans as they created a wavering policy towards them. The first thing the Americans did was force the Natives out their homes and lands. They intruded…

Indeed a civil war within the Creek Indian Nation took place between the Upper and Lower towns and as a result, the Lower towns allied to the United States and the Upper towns known as Red Sticks remained allied to Great Britain. The Creeks Civil War escalated to a conflict between the Red Sticks and the United States called the Battle Horseshoe Bend (HSB). On March 27, 1814, the battle of HSB was a victory for the United States forces and the deadliest battle for the American Indian history…

My dear fellow workers and leaders, we have worked so hard to provide for our family. We have struggled so hard to pay for our living condition. We were promise to have good wages and work rule. What did we gain? Nothing! Absolutely nothing! We are aware that the Carnegie steel Corporation has a high profit. It is unclear why they are cutting our wages and I feel they are trying to destroy us by giving little wages. Carnegie Steel proposed an 18% wage reduction as part of a new pay scale. I…

Andrew Carnegie started working for a railroad in Pittsburgh. He was 12 years old at the time. He met Tom Scott, the company’s President. Scott hired Carnegie as his personal assistant. Carnegie wanted to grow up and go to school. However, his family could not make it without him working because he was the man of the household. When Carnegie took on some of the tasks that he did Scott realized how important this young boy was and quickly moved him up in the ranks of the company. Carnegie became…

It has been said many times before, that the story of Andrew Carnegie was a true rags to riches story. He is one of the pioneers of the industrialization of America and the king of the steel industry in the 1800’s. Nearing the turn of the century Carnegie sold his multi-billion dollar companies and turned his focus onto philanthropy. He was one, if not the first, to publicly say all of the rich had a moral obligation to give away their fortune. Carnegie ‘put his money where his mouth was’ by…

In 1889, Andrew Carnegie wrote an article concerning surplus wealth called, “Wealth”. As an immigrant from Scotland, Andrew took himself from the low end of the income spectrum to the extreme opposite. With the gained knowledge and values he obtained from the industry, Andrew responded to the issue of the country’s administration of wealth. He believed that competence should be what all individuals strive for whether he/she is rich or poor. The extra wealth surplus potentially could be…

government’s attack on Native Americans was terrible because of false laws created, rebellious wars fought, and marches that resulted in disease, death, and despair. Andrew Jackson had always been an advocate for Native American removal. While he was in the army he fought a war against Native Americans resisting to surrender their land. In 1814 Andrew Jackson commanded military forces to defeat…

Dade’s Massacre Government policy of Indian removal would be seen by the American people as not only reasonable but essential to the interest of America. President Monroe has stated flatly that they should be removed or concentrated within narrow limits so that those slaves trying to seek sanctuary within the Seminoles territory was against in ever senses the capital investment of slave owners, because the Seminoles just simply saw them as men and women. This made things in the south difficult,…

“Jackson first appeared on the twenty dollar bill in 1928. It is not clear the reason the bill was switched from Grover Cleveland to Andrew Jackson. According to the U.S. Treasury, “Treasury department records do not reveal the reason that portraits of these particular statesmen were chosen in preference to those of the other persons of equal importance and prominence.” The placement of Jackson on the 20$ bill may be a historical irony; as president, he vehemently opposed both the National Bank…