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Due to complications with acquiring land under Dutch law, the Carnegie Foundation was formed in order to obtain the land, and who still manages the land. During 1914, when tensions between countries in Europe erupted, Carnegie created the Church Peace Union, which assembled leaders in religion, academics…

industry was being tried for going against the Sherman Antitrust Act. The Sherman Antitrust Act is a law forbidding contract, trust, or conspiracy in limitation of interstate and foreign trade. The case was between Standard Oil of New Jersey and the United States. The United States Supreme Court was the one trying Standard Oil. In the court case the actions of Standard Oil and the owner John Rockefeller were being reviewed. These actions are what determined the decision of what would happen to…

Reading about Andrew Carnegie I got to learn more about the Gilded Age as well as the American Society during the time. Coming from a small house in Scotland to making 23 million dollars a year, Carnegie made the American dream a reality. Growing the steel industry to being bigger than any other company, Carnegie provided jobs and built foundations off his industry. Doing this Carnegie believed in Social Darwinism and felt that the working class was meant to stay poor. Underpaying his workers…

Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, and Thomas Edison. They constructed a bold vision for modern America and transformed tremendously. Down to oil, rail, steel, shipping, automobile and finance. Background about Andrew…

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…

Howard Zinn argues that the new industrialists such as John D Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P Morgan adopted business practices that encouraged monopolies and used the powers of the government to control the masses from rebellion in A Peoples History of the United States of America. Rockefeller, Carnegie, and J.P Morgan all became massively wealthy due the spur of innovation, cheap labor, and other practices. Zinn argues that these “robber barons” used sly business tactics to keep their…

States men fought for power and money. Primarily, men such as John D. Rockefeller and Cornelius Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt was once known as the king of the railroads due to his sharp wit. However, Rockefeller started out poor and was an almost bankrupt oil industry. Vanderbilt yearning for more control over his competition, had decided to make a deal with Rockefeller so that he could transport oil and gain more profit. Then Rockefeller made a promise that he couldn’t keep so he had to either go…

merchant marine vessels. Among the noteworthy industrialist giants, who were known as the “Robber Barons”, for the reason of their business practices, these names are known today and the decedents of their products are still in use today: John D. Rockefeller: Oil, John Jacob Astor: Real Estate and Fur, Henry Clay Frick: Steel, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt: Shipping and Railroads, Jay Gould and James Fisk: Railroads and Finance, Andrew Carnegie: Railroads and Steel, Collis P. Huntington, Leland…

In the Gilded Ages, I believe the American business owners were considered both the captains of industry and robber barons. If you were a captain of industry, you were a business owners that had a positive effect on the American economy while being a robber baron meant the exact opposite. Robber barons were business owners that had a negative effect on the American economy. I think there were captains of industry but there were also robber barons. Some robber barons included Marshall Field,…

Andrew Carnegie Eulogy We are gathered here today to pay our respects to Mr. Andrew Carnegie. Andrew was born on November 25, 1835, in Dunfermline, Scotland. At the age of 13, in 1848, he moved to the United States. Andrew worked a series of odd-end jobs and later found his way into the world of business. He started Carnegie Steel Corporation in 1889 and in 1901 he sold his business and dedicated the rest of his life to his philanthropic work, including the founding of Carnegie Institute…