Was Andrew Carnegie A Hero Dbq

DBQ Andrew Carnegie If you were the richest person in the world what would you do with your money, save the economy from going under or simply just walk away. Well Andrew Carnegie was a man of wealth though he didn’t start out like that; he came from a poor family born in November, 1835, in the attic of the cottage his family lived in, in Dunfermline Scotland. He and his family left that cottage in Scotland to come to America in 1848 where at twelve years old he started to work almost immediately. Andrew Carnegie is a hero because his views on business, he is charitable, and he knew business. Everyone has their own views on how to run a business but Andrew Carnegie will forever be known as someone with great business practices. Carnegie believed in social Darwinism which means the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire (means no government involvement) is advocated (doc.2).
Andrew Carnegie believed in the philosophy that “if you work hard you will succeed”, he knew this philosophy to be true because he worked hard and succeed in making his dreams come true (doc.2). There are a lot of wealthy people in the world and not many are as charitable as Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie stated that “a man who dies rich dies disgraced”, with this saying you can get a sense of who he was as a person not just a business man (doc.8). Carnegie donated at least $100,000,000 a year of his money to education (doc.9). Carnegie donated $10,000,000 to the Carnegie peace endowment to hasten the abolition of war; he also