Andrew Martin

The Gospel of Wealth was written by Andrew Carnegie, one of the wealthiest and most successful industrialists of his time. Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and after Industrialism swept his town, his parents were out of work, causing Carnegie’s family to immigrate to the United States. He taught himself how to read at libraries. He then gradually worked his way up through the steel industry to become one of the most successful businessmen and philanthropists of his time. Carnegie…

“Thousands of workers from China helped build America’s Transcontinental Railroad” (Lewis). Kenneth Oppel and Kristin Lewis are both authors of two great stories with different aspects of America’s Transcontinental Railroad. Kenneth Oppel is the author of “The Ghost Boy”, a story about a fourteen year old boy named Luke is traveling on a train with his father. He happens to stumble upon a ghost; a victim to the making of the Transcontinental Railroad. Kristen Lewis is the author of an…

nineteenth century, the American government tried to civilize Native Americans and assimilate them into their culture. The government wanted these people to totally abandon their way of living and pick up the new American lifestyle. In December of 1829, Andrew Jackson had come to the realization that the Natives were not willing or able to assimilate into the “American” lifestyle, and came up with a plan…

becoming more “civilized” and adopting the ways of the English settlers by converting to Christianity, learning the English language, and accepting the American way of economic practices. However, this was not enough, not only for the Americans but for Andrew Jackson as well. Jackson was an advocate for “Indian Removal” and had a main role in the process of the Indian Removal Act. The Trail of Tears is a piece of history in which we need to remember the Native Americans who were forced to leave…

One of the most well-known acts of Jackson’s doing was the forced relocation of Native American tribes from the Southeast by way of the Indian Removal act. The Trail of Tears is a reminder of the cruelty he indorsed towards those not Caucasian. He did not see them as deserving the full rights he and other white Americans were afforded, regardless of the fact that America was occupied by them centuries prior to Europe’s arrival. I highly disagree with the resettlement he forced upon the Native…

be the greatest men of the 20th century, the only relation these men had with rich as they began was imagination and goals. Hill spent 20 years conducting his research to find the key ideas and principles behind success. With the inspiration from Andrew Carnegie, Hill conducted the most important principles of riches to those who seek to achieve financial success. This novel shows the logic and truth behind Hill’s…

Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson was born on March 18, 1767 in a backwoods settlement in Carolinas. His father died before he was born, left him with two older brothers and his mom. Growing up in poverty Jackson received very small amount of education. When Jackson was 13 year old, his mother and two brothers died when the British invaded Carolinas. After death of his mother and brother, Jackson was raised by his uncles. In Jackson’s late teens he studied law for a couple years, and later became an…

Indians, Indians were the first people to settle in the lands and the many to be taken away from their sacred motherland. White Americans had said that they feared the Indians because they we’re aliens who took over land more so savages. President Andrew Jackson was the supreme ruler of the Nation and he was determined to remove the Indians from their land. In 1830, Jackson had signed a very important document which enforced the Indian Removal Act. This Removal Act had affected five “Civilized…

parents died when he was still quite young, he had little opportunity to learn about his heritage” (par 1, Genealogy). Andrew Jackson was the 17th president of the United States he was born in March 15, 1767 near Lancaster, southern Carolina.” The battles of the American Revolutionary War that raged in the Carolinas from 1778 to 1781 had a devastating effect on Jackson’s life. Andrew, along with his brothers, joined the patriotic cause and volunteered to fight the British and when he was only…

given to guides and supporters of the removal plan. Indians who resisted migration west were put into stockades for long periods of time, until the arrangement for removal began. “They are prisoners, without a crime to justify the fact”.5 Voices of Andrew Jackson, John Ridge, Lewis Cass, the Cherokee women, Evan Jones, Elias Boudinot and many more could not change the course of events happening to the Cherokee nation. The complexity of this time in history raises many concerns for the…