https://padlet.com/happyhaley2000/fsj23zco48j1 en-us 2017-12-20 01:11:39 UTC 2023-04-11 21:56:39 UTC hello@padlet.com happyhaley2000 https://padlet.com/happyhaley2000/fsj23zco48j1/wish/217401600 From Dunfermline, Scotland, Carnegie came to the U.S when he was 13 years old.  He started as a bobbin boy in a cotton mill and later became a messenger for a telegraph company. With the acquired skills from that, he got a job at a railroad and at age 24 he was promoted to superintendent. 
Andrew Carnegie later got into the steel business and owned the biggest steel manufactures in the country. When he wanted to retire, he sold his companies and became the richest man in the world. He gave a lot to charities especially public libraries which he personally owed much of his success too.]]> 2017-12-20 01:19:17 UTC https://padlet.com/happyhaley2000/fsj23zco48j1/wish/217401600 happyhaley2000 https://padlet.com/happyhaley2000/fsj23zco48j1/wish/217401619 Andrew Carnegie's Steel company produced a quarter of all the steel in the U.S. He worked with high-class associates but was against monopolistic trusts. His company brought in an annual income of $40 million! This was divided among his partners and he received $25 million of it, which contributed to his speedy rise to becoming a multi-millionaire. ]]> 2017-12-20 01:19:44 UTC https://padlet.com/happyhaley2000/fsj23zco48j1/wish/217401619 happyhaley2000 https://padlet.com/happyhaley2000/fsj23zco48j1/wish/217401638 Andrew Carnegie was encouraged by his boss at the railroads to buy ten shares in the Adams Express Company. Carnegie bought the shares and later invested in Theodore Woodruff's sleeping car company. He ended up buying the company that introduced the first successful sleeping car on a U.S. railroad.
At only age 30 he built up the Carnegie Steel Corporation into the largest steel manufacturing company in the world. The industrial revolution brought higher demand for steal which meant increased profits for Carnegie.]]> 2017-12-20 01:20:06 UTC https://padlet.com/happyhaley2000/fsj23zco48j1/wish/217401638 happyhaley2000 https://padlet.com/happyhaley2000/fsj23zco48j1/wish/217401646 Andrew Carnegie's wealth helped to establish numerous colleges, schools, nonprofit organizations and associations in the U.S and other countries. Carnegie once said “It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive... as the founding of a public library”. This is why he chose to donate so much of his wealth to public libraries as well. ]]> 2017-12-20 01:20:22 UTC https://padlet.com/happyhaley2000/fsj23zco48j1/wish/217401646 happyhaley2000 https://padlet.com/happyhaley2000/fsj23zco48j1/wish/217401660 (1835-1919)]]> 2017-12-20 01:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/happyhaley2000/fsj23zco48j1/wish/217401660 happyhaley2000 https://padlet.com/happyhaley2000/fsj23zco48j1/wish/217401669 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Andrew_Carnegie%2C_three-quarter_length_portrait%2C_seated%2C_facing_slightly_left%2C_1913.jpg

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AP US History textbook: "the Great Pageant" By: David M. Kennedy & Lizabeth Cohen]]> 2017-12-20 01:20:52 UTC https://padlet.com/happyhaley2000/fsj23zco48j1/wish/217401669