Henry Clay Frick

that once existed between Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick. They both exhibited extreme business practices that tied them together, but also tore them apart. Their mindset for business expansion and longevity are the theories that modern day companies can thrive to achieve. “N one was more important to the “Iron City” than Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, whose operations in the city had more than quadrupled their output in the previous decade and were now producing more than a million tons of steel each year”, (Standford, 2005). Carnegie was born a business man. He was a bottom line leader that very rarely evaluated profits,…

Henry Clay Frick was labeled as a robber baron. Frick was born to a farming family in western Pennsylvania and received little formal education (Encyclopedia of World Biography). His grandfather was a wealthy miller and distiller and Frick became bookkeeper for his grandfather's businesses at age 19 (Encyclopedia of World Biography). Frick was knowledgeable of the potential value of coking coal deposits for the developing steel industry (YourDictionary). With financial help from relatives and…

says that you would’ve still had it if you didn’t die. Carnegie says that the only way to spend your money on charity. By using Social Darwinism he thinks that you need to give your money to the poor so you can do better for them then they would do for themselves. Documents J, K, and L show how Carnegie feels about the american working class and his ideas on how to handle it. During the Homestead strike Carnegie sided with Henry Clay Frick and wanted him to fight back against the strikers and…

The Johnstown, Pennsylvania flood, May 31,1889, was a tragic Disaster waiting to happen. The town was placed in a river bed for a steel company, with a poorly built dam holding a lake from pouring into the town. The town,payed to be built by Andrew Carnegie and other rich powerful men was destroyed in a instance. It would take years to repair the damage to this town. The question is, is Andrew Carnegie and other wealthy men at blame for this incident? It could have been a honest mistake or…

The rich acquired all that they could, and the cost of living was impossible for some to keep up with. Finally, when the union declined the increased production demands, workers were locked out of the plant by Henry Frick. The outraged emotions and actions following this chaos is what began the Homestead Lockout and Strike. The Homestead lockout and strike of 1892 greatly impacted the labor movement of the late 19th century due to workers demanding change. The two sides of this altercation…

Born on April 12, 1777, Henry Clay was a devoted nationalist.. He was very influential in the United States sectional conflict, economic prosperity, and development of its infrastructure. When Clay was 4 years old, his father died and he was considered an orphan, even though his mother did not die until 1829. Clay only had three years of formal education, yet the Virginian still became a lawyer by self educating himself. At the age of 20 years, Clay migrated to Kentucky to begin his career as…

Biddle was known to be more a strict businessman than a politician. Nicholas had turned to members of Congress, including the very powerful Kentucky Senator Henry Clay and leading businessmen sympathetic to the bank, to fight against Jackson, proving that his thoughts was the correct way to handle the situation. Because of the way he underrated the power of a strong and popular President, his actions showed where the outcome turned out to be. He caused the downfall of himself and the demise of…

Henry Clay spoke for most people in the West because he and most of the people thought that they should have better roads, canals, and waterway systems. Henry Clay was also a lawyer and that was another reason on why he was a spokesperson for all the people. John C. Calhoun advocated for the south's “interests” but not all of the southerners because not all southerners had different ideas. Daniel Webster opposed the national tariff at first but then came to support it to try to protect some…

When Lincoln spoke at Clay’s funeral, he compared himself with Clay, in that they cared about human liberty. However, his mentor was actually a slave owner. Author Roy Basler, writes how Lincoln had no solution to slavery and he supported the Clay idea of “Colonization” for all blacks. Clay was a member of the American Colonization Society. The goal of the group was to send all blacks back to Africa. “Lincoln approvingly quoted Clay as saying that, there is a moral fitness in the idea of…

the president, and they wanted modernization and economic protection. In the 1836 election, the Whig Party had nominated four candidates for the presidency. The four unsuccessful candidates were, William Henry Harrison of Ohio, Daniel Webster from Massachusetts, Hugh Lawson White of Tennessee, and Willie Person Mangum from North Carolina. The year of 1836 would show success for the Democratic Party with Martin Van Buren winning fifty-eight percent of the votes. The closet Whig Party candidate…