Homestead Strike

Question 8: Were rich industrialists captains of industry or robber barons? Position: Rich industrialists were captains of industry 1. The rich industrialists of the 19th century pioneered the business practices of the time, and set the foundations for the success of US corporations for decades to come. One such business practice was cost accounting. In the 1880s, industrialist Andrew Carnegie was “the first in the railroad industry to apply cost accounting, or breaking out the product cost…

My entrepreneur, Andrew Carnegie, was a Captain of Industry. His philanthropy, and compassion to others shows his Captain of Industry side. However he committed some Robber Baron-like acts. Notably, Mr. Carnegie assured all his workers jobs, according to Resource 2. This is a Captain of Industry- like act because it shows that he wanted to make sure his workers can support their families. In addition to what was previously stated, Mr. Carnegie erected over 2,500 public libraries according…

It may seem odd to think that without Bill Gates this world may never have come to the technological advancements that east today. Bill Gates was born October 28, 1955 in Seattle. He and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in 1975. Bill Gates never finished college but went on to become the richest man alive, changing the world through technological innovation and business strategies and helping the less fortunate through charities and donations. Bill Gates did not even finished college but that…

People started to revolt. Some people hadn’t got paid yet. They threatened him that they might strike back or send him to jail. But keeping his cool, he reached out to many investors convincing them about the future of steel. It took Carnegie four-years to create the Eads bridge. But even after the Eads bridge he still had troubles. His main customer…

Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-born American industrialist who gained great wealth in the steel industry before turning into a major philanthropist. His family moved to America to seek better economic opportunities. He started out working in a cotton factory as a boy and then rose up the latter of command through time. By his early thirties he was already well off and realized he wanted change. In 1901 he sold his company to J.P. Morgan for $480 million dollars and devoted himself to…

Triumphantly surpassing a poor childhood, Andrew Carnegie became the richest man in knowledge and wealth. Along with his fame came infinite philanthropy and his charitable heart kept giving. Carnegie no longer lives, but his impact on the United States of America in terms of how he changed average lives, as well as the mark he left in the world will forever reign. In light of the fact that walking past him in early years, a person would think that Carnegie was just a simple, poor Irish boy,…

Collis made America much better by being involved in all these projects that affected the american people in such a positive way. Now people from the south were able to travel to the west because of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Major Wickham was able to get Huntington involved in the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, because of Huntington’s involvment this railroad became a success. This railway was from Virginia and in West Virginia there is a town named after him. He established a coal business…

In Sholem Asch's novel Uncle Moses, Asch makes use of vivid written descriptors to effectively portray Uncle Moses' character to the reader. Uncle Moses begins as a butcher in Kuzmin, but then immigrates to America and became a wealthy factory-owner. In his newfound social standing, he employs many workers and helps their families financially, which inflates his view of himself as a caring uncle. Later, he tries to wed a young lady named Masha, who loves another man named Charlie. Masha…

successful. Throughout the West, the expansion of railroads, the discovery of new resources and new agricultural activities promoted economic growth and created new centers of commercial activity. The first economic boom in the West was mining as mineral strike sped up the economy’s development. Cattle ranching was also another important factor in the changing economy of the West. The Great Plains’ vast greenlands of the provided a widespread region where cattle ranchers could graze their herds…

make homesteading possible. From families, wives, operations and much more led into the boom. “The ready available of free or inexpensive land and the new methods of dry farming made the Montana homestead boom possible” (Malone, Roeder and Lang 238). “Three important factors gave the rise to the Homestead Boom in Montana: the dry land farming system of agriculture, the availability of large tracts of land either free or at low prices, and the mammoth promotional campaign that cracked up around…