How I chose my topic
I chose my topic on Andrew Carnegie and the steel empire. I chose this topic because i thought that the steel industry was very interesting and all of the engineering and how andrew carnegie was the richest man in the late eighteen hundreds. It was very intriguing how he donated a lot of his money towards other companies to help them strive. Something that caught my attention was the engineering that goes into all of the stuff he did because i love engineering and all about it and the math that you have to do on top of the problem solving.
How I conducted my research
I conducted my research by searching up “Andrew Carnegie” on the internet and finding some reliable resources. I next went into every one of the websites to see if they had anything helpful such as a ,timeline, pictures or a ,biography. I next wrote the http address and typed it in a document to that i could later put all of my primary and secondary resources and put them into one bibliography. I used one book that helped me alot and i was by Laura B. Edge and it was basically about the end of his career and how he became so successful and his success towards philanthropy. I used website that
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I have worked with web sites for a very long time and i make website just for fun on weebly so i have a lot of experience with making web sites. I created my project by using colors that would relate to my theme and topic. The grey would go with the steel and metal because that what Andrew Carnegie worked with and that was his job. Then black and white would go with my theme because it was in the late eighteen hundreds. I first started with my buttons and my theme of the web site and the colors i was going to use for it. Then i added all of my words and bibliography and stuff. Then i put in pictures to go with my
George McNeil and Andrew Carnegie were very opinionated people. According to George McNeil a railroad president was exactly like a king, sultan, and shah. The president had the power to control wages and the hours of the workers. President also had power over the courts and the laws. A true president has a body of people under him regulation their power.
He became a philanthropist when he donated much of his money to good causes. He bought shares in the iron mills in factories that made sleeping cars and locomotives. He also was a captain of industry and invested in a company that built railroads and bridges . Carnegie has a university in chicago called university of chicago, as well as Carnegie Hall in New York City. Carnegie also formed a huge monopoly after he took over the steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie had opened his own ways to wind up distinctly a prosperous representative. From a youthful age, Carnegie conveyed the weight of supporting himself and his family, while working massively hard. Carnegie was conceived in Dunfermline, Scotland and lived in a little bungalow for the vast majority of his childhood (Document 1). From 1835 to 1848 Carnegie and his group of four, lived in the storage room of the cabin, which was over his dad's weaver's shop (Document 1). In 1897, Carnegie updated his living home office by obtaining the Skibo Castle in Dornoch Firth, Scotland.
“What if the proper mode of administering wealth after the laws (of survival of the fittest) upon which civilization have thrown it into the hands of the few?” (Doc. B - Andrew Carnegie) Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American, self-made entrepreneur who from the age of 24 was motivated and well to do. He was, from the start, always trying to find ways to make money. Finally, he found out a way to make steel that was stronger, more durable, and cheaper.
Then, he left and moved to New York. In 1872 he took a trip to England and cooperated with Henry Bessemer to build a steel mill. He became famous Homestead steel. The philanthropy of Andrew Carnegie made him a hero which set the foundation for three reasons. This was done through Carnegie’s gifts because he gave money to help many causes like education, religion, and other charities, ”The Gospel of Wealth” he believed that rich people are superior to all classes so they should use their money to help lessen or poor people and Carnegie helped his hometown.
Several industrialists had a major impact on the Gilded Age. These industrialists were Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Thomas Edison, and Alexander Gram Bell. Andrew Carnegie made steel from iron which helped to build railroads and buildings. He also developed a process that sped up the production of steel by 96 times. This process is known as the Bessemer Process.
A hero is someone who does a meaningful deed, worthy of remembrance and selflessly. Andrew Carnegie was a wealthy man. After he sold his steel company in 1900, he devoted the rest of his life giving money to charity. Did Andrew Carnegie’s generosity make him a hero? Andrew Carnegie was not a hero.
Carnegie reduced the wages of working employees in his steel company (document D). But as a business man he needed to do the most conventional thing to win more money. The more money he won the more he gave to the poor. If working employees don’t get enough pay they are considered poor so the employees still benefit for pay and donated things from Carnegie. Plus people that were employees to Carnegie’s industry of steel at least had a job so they can survive longer.
Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland on November 1835. Growing up poor, Carnegie started working 12 hour shifts at the age of 12 for a $1.20. As he started getting older he taught himself new things which would eventually lead him to making $1,500 a year at the age of 17. In the early 1870s Carnegie was so successful in the steel industry that he sold his Carnegie Steel Company to J.P. Morgan for $480 million making him the richest man in the world. Before dying Andrew Carnegie dedicated himself to helping charities and donating approximately $350 million to education.
Andrew Carnegie was a “robber baron” as shown in the way he acted towards the people who helped him reach the top and the terrible working environment that he subjected his workers to. He did various things in an attempt at overshadowing the awful things he did and positively alter his public image. His mentor, Thomas Scott, taught him the skills he would use to become the undisputed king of steel. Costs were the most important aspect of any business and reducing those required cutting wages, demanding 13 hour days and utilizing spies as a way to thwart possible strikes. Many years after Carnegie had gone out on his own, Scott met with him thinking that the years they spent together and all he had taught him would unquestionably result in help in his time of trouble.
During the late 19th century, there was a growth in industrialization. This brought new opportunities for the poor and the rich. For example, Carnegie helped build the steel industry in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, which made him one of the richest man in the world. As Carnegie gained more wealth, he questioned who money should be given to. Carnegie was both a Robber Baron and a Captain of Industry.
Andrew Carnegie was one of the most famous and wealthiest American industrialist during the Industrial Age. He was a robber baron who made a fortune in the steel industry and applied vertical integration to his business. Carnegie contradicted his views as a robber baron because he supported, but destroyed many unions. This made many of his views unethical.
(Document C). Andrew Carnegie was such a name in the steel industry, by the 20th century he had an immense impact on the steel industry. As his company grew, his overall steel output grew. Between the years of 1892 and 1900, Carnegie
Topic: Should Andrew Carnegie be described as a “captain of industry” or a “robber baron”? Abstract: Nowadays, there still exists lots of controversial comments towards Andrew Carnegie. Some of them hold the view that Andrew Carnegie should be described as a captain of industry while others contend that he was only a robber baron. As far as I am concerned, Andrew Carnegie, known as the King of Steel, built the steel industry in the United States, and in the process, became one of the wealthiest men in America.
During the Industrial Revolution big businesses took places of small workshops, increasing to quantity but not quality. This made many people lose their jobs, and now there was only one place to work the factories. Ahead of these factories were big business owners, some born into money others worked their way up to it like Andrew Carnegie. Work at these factories became unsafe and the pay was bad, they could only blame one person and that was the owners.