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Carnegie: Robber Baron and Captain of Industry On November 25, 1835, Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland to a poor family. When he was 13, his family moved to the U.S. As a young child, he went to go work at a railroad as a assistant and a messenger for Tom Scott, one of the owners on the railroad. On a quest to build a bridge across the mississippi, he came upon a new steel refining process. After taking many loans, and using most of his money, he build a new factory using this new process,…

Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25th, 1835 in Dunfermline, Scotland. Sixty six years later, he would own the most enormous steel corporation in the world and become the richest man of his time. He started as a poor Scottish boy earning $1.20 a week working in a factory but was able to build one of the most successful industries in history. He is a captain of industry for three reasons. First off, his business, the Carnegie Steel Company, dominated the American scene by revolutionizing steel…

Sports have became one of my greatest passions since I was at a very young age, and now, I am completely addicted to it. See the thing is, I would always give my time up for it because I just had so much fun doing it. It was something that benefitted me in many different ways, both physically, mentally, and academically. It forced me to keep my grades high enough in order to participate in the games. I started to notice that it eventually consumed a whole lot of my time once I started playing…

Literacy- U.S. Studies: Religious Freedom William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, established a colony based on the ideas of religious liberty, equality, and self-government which served as the foundation of America’s constitutional rights to a secular government wherein all citizens may freely practice their religious beliefs; these ideas still impact the government’s inaction concerning citizens’ religious practices. William Penn created key principles of religious toleration,…

Thomas McKean was born in New London, Pennsylvania on March 19, 1734. With his cousin David Finney they both studied law under eminent Francis Allison. As a student he worked as the Prothonotory Court of Common Pleas for New Castle, Delaware. He was admitted to the bar in Delaware before the age of 21. He was commissioned to his first political office in 1756, that of deputy Attorney General to county Sussex, Pennsylvania. In 1762 he was appointed a colleague by the assembly, this person was…

Amish Amish location-America Canada,Germany Population-270,000 in America Food Amish people are known for their great food. On Sunday they have a special meal after mass. The meal usually is bean soup with beans,pickles,and bread. For dessert they have Snitz pie and coffee. Almost every Amish family grows a garden that has corn, celery, beets, carrots, potatoes and tomato in their garden.They also raise their own livestock like such as pigs and chickens. Clothing Many Amish women wear a…

Andrew Carnegie began working for Tom Scott at the age of 12. Scott liked Carnegie and hired him as a personal assistant. In 1868 Scott asked Carnegie to build a bridge across the Mississippi River, to be the largest bridge to ever be built in America. Carnegie has no idea how to build it so he looks for advice from Keystone bridge builders. He decided to use steel, a relatively new material to the time. It was extremely expensive and hard to mass produce tho, no one have ever tried to use steel…

In this time of peril, the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793, I as a doctor am observing different treatments for Yellow Fever. In the city of Philadelphia, thousands of men women and children alike are dying of this nightmare come true. I will do as King George II says and make sure that should this happen in England, we’ll be ready Are the French doctors or the Philadelphia doctors better? They are similar, yet so different! What to chose what to choose… I will write the similarities and…

change the Pennsylvania way of law and order. He wanted the treatment of Indians to be with civility and respect; However, there were those who did not agree with this "Holy Experiment", and action was taken towards the destruction and demise of Penn's vision. The motivating cause of William Penn's "Holy Experiment" were the difficulties he and the Quakers were enduring at the time. They experienced discrimination due to their spiritual beliefs. The Puritans disliked their way…

City. In “Experience History Interpreting Americas Past” by “McGraw-Hill Education” they go on to say that, “Carnegie worked his way up from bobbin boy in a textile factory to expert telegrapher to superintendent of the western division of the Pennsylvania Railroad at the age of 24.” (McGraw-Hill Education, 520). Steel would pave the way for many of Americas industries to blossom. Cars, homes, bridges can be used as examples of how steel was used to help America. Many of the things we use…