A man known for his legacy, his success, starting poor and working his way into becoming one of the most “influential Philanthropist” across the world. Andrew Carnegie started as just an immigrant coming across to America with little to no money in his pockets. Little did everyone know, his drive for success would lead him to become one of the most successful entrepreneurs to ever live and founded a legacy that will never die in the Carnegie Steel Company. All of Carnegie’s life he lived in poverty. He was born in Dunfermline, Scotland to parents that believed books and education were top priority. This was his leading foundation into becoming the successful business man that he is still remembered for today. He immigrated to The United States at the age of 13 where he settled in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. He started his career in a factory earning a mere $1.20 per week; he soon found a job as a telegraph messenger. He soon advanced his career and worked as the assistant to Thomas Scott, a top official in the railroad. He learned about the railroad industry through this and three years later, was promoted to superintendent. He would later use this knowledge to his advantage and become one of the most successful and influential person of his time. Carnegie made many investments while working for the railroad that brought back substantial returns. Within the next decade, he founded the Carnegie Steel Company which changed the way the steel business worked. He built plants around the country and owned all the steps necessary for his business; raw materials, ships, and railroads. He soon became the dominant force in the steel industry which made him a very wealthy man. There was nobody that could compete with him. Carnegie was the dominant force of his time. Till this day he is known as the most successful entrepreneur ever to exist. How he did this while keeping a warm heart no one knows. He was one of the few men to actually reach success and give back to the lower class. Although Andrew Carnegie was probably one of the wealthiest people of his time, he maintained a servant’s heart and by the age of sixty-six already retired. With his millions he became an active philanthropist. I believe his kind-hearted personality could have only been due to his upbringing. Education may have been a priority by his parents, but servitude followed him. As discussed early, he grew up poor so once
Document 1 Andrew Carnegie: Gospel of Wealth During the Gilded era, there was much concern over the administration of wealth between the rich and the poor. One of the richest men of this time was the extremely successful Carnegie Steel owner, Andrew Carnegie. The less wealthy of society believed they deserved more of the riches the wealthy had earned. Granted that the majority of the wealth was held by few (the successful business owners such as himself), Carnegie proposed the idea of administering…
Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie, one of the captains of industry, helped build the steel industry of America which turned him into one of the richest entrepreneurs of his age. He had an ambition for riches which helped him on his path to becoming such a successful entrepreneur. His family fought to do away with inherited privilege and to bring about the rights of common workers. Carnegies impact with the steel industry was one of the most important innovations of the American industry.…
Steel Workers (the AA) and the Carnegie Steel Company The Pullman Strike: nationwide railroad strike in the United States in the summer of 1894, The conflict began in Pullman, Chicago, on May 11 when nearly 4,000 factory employees of the Pullman Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages. Luna Kellie, was born June 9, 1867, died in Phoenix on March 4, 1940. She became State Secretary of the Nebraska Farmers' Alliance Andrew Carnegie: November 25, 1835 – August 11…
in a very small handful of people who owned big companies and cursed their workers with long days and little pay. Andrew Carnegie, who was a Scottish immigrant who built an enormous steel company, started by building a plant near Pittsburgh which flourished and started the beginning of his extreme wealth and eventually became the richest man in the world at the time. He founded Carnegie Steel and made many generous donations to a number of worthy causes towards education and entertainment. He believed…
I believe that Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller totally exemplify the American Dream. Before you continue reading shouldn’t we have an understanding of what the American Dream is? Although the American Dream varies from person to person, but the consensus is equality, democracy, and material prosperity. While some have an easier time achieving the American Dream others like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller struggled and fought to achieve theirs. Rockefeller is America's first business…
American Realities, “The Rise of Andrew Carnegie” and “John Muir and the American Wilderness” and answer the following questions. Your responses should be one to two paragraphs in length for each question. Save your responses as a Word Document file and e-mail the document as an attachment at catherine.rokicky@tri-c.edu. The assignment is due by Tuesday, January 27 at 11:59 p.m. 1. Explain the contributions of Andrew Carnegie to American life. (3 points) Andrew Carnegie made numerous contributions…
All the stories I found are so interesting, Steve Jobs, Sir Richard Branson, Larry Page, just to name a few. Who I settled on is Andrew Carnegie. He grew up a poor Handloom weaver’s son in Scotland. In 1848 his father borrowed money to get his family to America for a better life. Andrew was 12, and soon got a job in a cotton factory as a bobbin boy for $1.20 a week. Andrew eventually got a job as a telegraph operator and soon became the fastest, best operator in the Pittsburgh area. That is how he…
The rise of the Gilded Age (1865-1900) in American History hurt the American economy long-term to the present day by giving rise to corporate greed and business control through child labor, poor administration of wealth and often in times slavery. Production in the Gilded Age for the United States was booming. However, this brought many problems with the rising of business competition and fight for power. Competition and production went hand in hand as the labor of the people were used to its fullest…
industrial workers were left to endure miserable working conditions and were hidden behind the nation’s shallow façade. Powerful business men such as John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie used their companies to bring in large profits and monopolize the production of goods that were in high demand. Andrew Carnegie, the owner of Carnegie Steel Company, used vertical integration to control every aspect through the production and distribution of steel to increase his profit. John D. Rockefeller used a different…
a distinct division between industrialists and laborers. Industrialist Andrew Carnegie, machinist John Morrison, and economist Henry George expressed their opinions of the modernization, sharing comparable and different opinions regarding the costs and benefits of industrialization. Between the three men, it is evident they all agreed that the times had changed drastically, creating an efficient way of mechanization. Carnegie explained that before “articles were manufactured at the domestic hearth…
