Andrew Johnson

You may not know about his finding of of a Mexican supply train that sparked a battle over grass or when he said,”One or more axes,” to Sam Houston before destroying vince’s bridge, but “Deaf” Smith’s name and legacy has been put in our textbooks, brains, our own thoughts, and in our hearts. Which is where it will always be. Erastus “Deaf” Smith was born in Duchess County, New York, on April 19, 1787 to Chilaib and Mary Smith, and during his childhood Erastus contracted a disease, which caused…

The American business giants of the Gilded Age were captains of industry. They had helped build industry in a positive way, used their technology to help advance in the industrial business, and had found new, better, ways to organize their businesses. Alongside these few reasons, the captains of industry, in general, helped revolutionize the way Americans do business. The “business giants” of the Gilded age were all very wealthy, there were few of them, but enough. A good portion of these…

Andrew Carnegie shouldn’t be considered a hero because his selfish, ambitious, and extreme competitive attitudes had made a negative impact on others. A hero is someone who helps people who is in need of help and someone who gives to the poor and doesn’t spend money on unnecessary things that aren’t important. A hero is also somebody who has good leadership. Carnegie had a steelmaking company, In Carnegie’s time in the northeast of about the 1900s. Carnegie’s selfish attitude shows that he…

carry through time, such as war and battles. One conflict still carries through to today: should the Industrial leaders of the late 19th century be characterized more as “captains of industry” or “robber barons?” Two prominent figures to be noted are Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. Neither was born into wealth, but rather, they earned it themselves through their success in the oil and steel businesses. But the question here is did they earn it? Or did they cheat their way to the top…

Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and John D. Rockefeller are men of insight, innovation, and ingenuity. These are the men that started an age of advancement in steel, oil, and railroads within a time period of a few decades. Vanderbilt, a self-made man and cut-throat business man, owned the largest shipping empire in the world. He started with a single ferry which soon became a fleet of ships transporting goods and passengers throughout the country. He soon became known as the commodore.…

Andrew Carnegie (modern America might know him from Carnegie Hall in NYC) was one of the many business leaders in the 19th Century to utilize the laissez-faire system of capitalism to become wealthy. Carnegie may not be all that well known today, but he left behind two important ideas that would set in motion a chain of events across society: the Gospel of Wealth and Social Darwinism. The Gospel of Wealth a was a principle to which Carnegie invented and subscribed that stated, “People should be…

Andrew Jackson was born in poverty to a Scottish-Irish immigrant family on March 15th, 1767. After suffering the loss of his mother and two brothers at the hands of Great Britian, he threw himself into politics and was accepted to the North Carolina bar in 1787, and soon moved to what became Nashville to set up a private practice. His wealth and success grew rapidly: Jackson married, built a mansion, went from the first man from Tennessee in the House of Representatives in 1796 to the U.S.…

Begining the entry of the primary Europeans, the Plight of the Native American's has been managed not without anyone else's input but instead by the early colonialist and the future youthful country the United States would move toward becoming. Show Destiny and American Exceptionalism drove the nonmilitary personnel and government dispositions towards the Native American's and their territories. The U.S. Government has and still is constantly endeavoring to take, control and oversee lands saved…

In late 19th century America, countless industrialists were accused of using unscrupulous or dishonest methods of hoarding wealth and building monopolies. Examples of these accused captains of industry include John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan, nicknamed "Robber Barons." While many consumers and competitors were quick to attack these powerful businessmen, their primary interest was merely to build on the success of their companies, and reach their full potential. I believe…

I have mixed feelings about Jackson. As some say, he did expand the voting base and he struck a blow against the planter Aristocracy that had been running the country. His treatment of the Indians though shows him in a different light. He certainly didn't extend the voting franchise to them. Thumbing his nose at the Supreme Court over the issue gives him an Imperial air. Moving the tribes to Oklahoma may have been a best of all possible outcomes sort of thing. There probably would have been a…