https://padlet.com/smorrissey71743899/uaj54yvw2k6h en-us 2017-12-21 06:39:19 UTC 2017-12-21 22:06:52 UTC hello@padlet.com smorrissey71743899 https://padlet.com/smorrissey71743899/uaj54yvw2k6h/wish/217634731 Andrew Carnegie exemplified American success. He arrived from Scotland as a poor 12 year old in 1848, finding work as an errand boy for the Pennsylvania Railroad where he quickly scaled the managerial ladder. In 1865 he struck out on his own as an iron manufacturer, selling to friends in the railroad business. He soon built a massive steel mill outside Pittsburgh where a Bessemer converter made steel refining dramatically more efficient. With Carnegie leading the way, steel became a major US industry. Carnegie was also an important philanthropists of his era, and identified as one of the richest people ever. ]]> 2017-12-21 06:43:34 UTC https://padlet.com/smorrissey71743899/uaj54yvw2k6h/wish/217634731 smorrissey71743899 https://padlet.com/smorrissey71743899/uaj54yvw2k6h/wish/217635021 Being on the of the richest people to ever live, Carnegie gave an enormous amount of his total wealth to charity. $350 million went to charities, foundations, and universities (about 90% of his fortune). These trusts included funding for the Universities of Scotland, building of libraries, theaters, child-welfare centers, the Carnegie Institution of Washington contributing to various areas of scientific research, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Carnegie Corporation of New York which has aided universities, libraries, and research in law, economics, and medicine, and the famous music hall in NYC. ]]> 2017-12-21 06:49:24 UTC https://padlet.com/smorrissey71743899/uaj54yvw2k6h/wish/217635021 smorrissey71743899 https://padlet.com/smorrissey71743899/uaj54yvw2k6h/wish/217635089 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andrew-Carnegie
http://www.history.com/topics/andrew-carnegie
https://www.biography.com/people/andrew-carnegie-9238756

]]> 2017-12-21 06:50:41 UTC https://padlet.com/smorrissey71743899/uaj54yvw2k6h/wish/217635089 smorrissey71743899 https://padlet.com/smorrissey71743899/uaj54yvw2k6h/wish/217635577 In 1859 Carnegie became the superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company Pittsburgh division. He introduced the first successful sleeping car on American railroads. In 1865 Carnegie began working for the Keystone Bridge Company where he saw the future demand for iron and steel. He founded the J. Edgar Thomson Steel Works which would eventually become the Carnegie Steel Company. In the 1870s Carnegie's company built the new plants to use the Bessemer steel process and other technologies which allowed it to achieve greater efficiency than any other manufacturing industry of the time. Carnegie also used vertical integration by purchasing the coke fields and iron-ore deposits that provided the raw materials for steel-making as well as the ships and railroads that transported these supplies. The Carnegie Steel Company dominated America's steel industry and in 1890 surpassed that of Great Britain for the first time. In 1901 Carnegie sold his company to J.P. Morgan's newly formed United States Steel Corporation for $250,000,000 where he retried and devoted himself to his philanthropic activities. ]]> 2017-12-21 06:58:42 UTC https://padlet.com/smorrissey71743899/uaj54yvw2k6h/wish/217635577 smorrissey71743899 https://padlet.com/smorrissey71743899/uaj54yvw2k6h/wish/217636040 Andrew Carnegie was an immigrant who came to America as the son of a handloom weaver and a seamstress who came to America in search of better economic opportunities in Pennsylvania. During his position as superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Carnegie invested in various ventures including iron, oil and coal companies and made his first fortune in his early 30s. After founding his first steel company, Carnegie created a steel empire by maximizing profits and minimizing inefficiencies through vertical integration. Carnegie dominated the steel industry making him an extremely wealthy man of the 19th century.  ]]> 2017-12-21 07:06:21 UTC https://padlet.com/smorrissey71743899/uaj54yvw2k6h/wish/217636040 smorrissey71743899 https://padlet.com/smorrissey71743899/uaj54yvw2k6h/wish/217636882 - Born November 25, 1835
- Died August 11, 1919
- Married Louise Whitfield and had their only child, Margaret, in 1897
- Wrote in The Nineteenth Century and North American Review
- Carnegie personally offered $20 million to the Philippines so that the Filipino people could buy their independence from the United States
- Wrote Gospel of Wealth (1889)
- Carnegie gave $2 million to start Carnegie Mellon University]]> 2017-12-21 07:16:31 UTC https://padlet.com/smorrissey71743899/uaj54yvw2k6h/wish/217636882 smorrissey71743899 https://padlet.com/smorrissey71743899/uaj54yvw2k6h/wish/217794530 Is Andrew Carnegie a Robber Baron? It is very hard to determine Carnegie's place among other entrepreneurs of this era and their characteristics as a Robber Baron. Andrew Carnegie supported workers' rights, but destroyed unions. Carnegie's wish to control the steel industry led to him making questionable decisions regarding the treatment of his workers, but at the same time he donated so much of his wealth to charity and to good causes. ]]> 2017-12-21 22:01:36 UTC https://padlet.com/smorrissey71743899/uaj54yvw2k6h/wish/217794530