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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…

voter base, and new campaigning strategies coming into play. To continue, the two candidates, Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams, had two very diverse backgrounds. For example, Andrew Jackson was an orphan and led most of his life as a frontiersman, whereas John Quincy Adams was the son of the nation’s second president (John Adams) and had experience serving in the U.S. Senate. Moreover, Andrew Jackson was seen as a military hero at the Battle of New Orleans, and campaigned as a “man of…

(Golden, 1988, p.2).” Andrew Carnegie was a wealthy individual in industry. Steel became one of the major products to come out of the industrialization period because it was more affordable than iron. The Bessemer process was created to help in the steelmaking process. Carnegie helped many people out of the kindness of his heart. Andrew Carnegie helped industrialize America, he was the author of The Gospel of Wealth, and he gave back to the community by funding places in need. Andrew Carnegie…

• Name of Industrialist: Andrew Carnegie. • How did he acquire his wealth? - Andrew Carnegie was born into a family who believed in the importance of books and learning in Dunfermline, Scotland. After he immigrated to the United States in 1858, he started with his first job as a telegrapher and then invested in railroads. With constant efforts, he established the Carnegie Steel Company in 1889 that was the largest steel company in the world. He made huge sums of money from the steel industry.…

The Gospel of Wealth Andrew Carnegie was the incarnation and manifestation of an ideal American Dream as he began his career as a replaceable servant and rose to power as he became a premier American Industrialist. Through years of hard work and determination he had finally become an established member of society when he started his Carnegie Steel Company. After attaining his massive wealth he published an essay in regards to the wealthy’s treatment of the laissez-faire, concerned about social…