was plagued with crime‚ corruption‚ poverty‚ and many other issues between the rich and poor in American society. Successful businessmen and captains of industry such as Andrew Carnegie‚ J.P. Morgan‚ and William Vanderbilt enjoyed astonishing profits. But while the rich and wealthy like Carnegie‚ Morgan‚ and Vanderbilt enjoyed this unprecedented rise in profits and spent lavishly on things such as diamonds‚ homes‚ and clothes‚ many of the poor wore rags and lived in crowded tenements. Many of the
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"No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit." (Carnegie) One of the major characteristics that define the success of this Golden age was that of the onset of the multitude of inventions that played a major role in the reformation of agriculture and lifestyle.The transformation of the United States into an industrial nation took place largely after the Civil War and on the Britsih model. Although the Industrial Revolution brought many positive inventions
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Rags to Riches Harold Livesay’s Andrew Carnegie and the Rise to Big Business portrayed Andrew Carnegie as a perfect example of the American Dream. From rags to riches is a journey that Andrew Carnegie portrayed through out his life. He was born into poverty in Scotland‚ moving to America in 1848. Andrew Carnegie started as a bobbin boy to one of the first tycoons of big business in America. With the jobs he did hold he applied the knowledge and techniques from job to job to generate his fortunes
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rightly considered captains of industry because of the many job opportunities they created. Thousands if not millions of Americans found work thanks to Carnegie’s US Steel or Rockefeller’s Standard Oil‚ or working on the railroads owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt. These jobs lured rural Americans off their farms and immigrants onto ships to come in search of an opportunity to make something of themselves‚ to become the star of their own Horatio Alger novel. However‚ many critics complained that those jobs
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focussed on helping big industrial businessmen and no longer need to worry about taming the West. The economy itself changed greatly in the post Civil War era. The Industrial Revolution led to a new kind of big business. Now men like Carnegie‚ Rockefeller‚ and Vanderbilt had huge monopolies and trusts‚ making it nearly impossible for the common man to get ahead. Many government officials were bribed to make policies favorable to big business. Also‚ the power of the Presidents was a joke at this time
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AP United States History – Chapter 24 Essay 1. In what ways did the railroad construction between 1865 and1890 transform American society and the American economy? 2. In what ways did American industrialists consolidate their businesses and eliminate competition? How was this business consolidation perceived by the public? 3. In what ways did the American government promote the growth of the American economy in post bellum America? To what extent did they regulate business activity? Between
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poor” [1/31/11]. “The working class was forced into crowded‚ unsanitary and unsafe slums within cities while the rich built mansions uptown” [484]. “The only people who benefitted from the new capitalistic economy where Big Business leaders like Carnegie‚
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Andrew Carnegie * Scottish immigrant * 1870s: started steel mill in Pittsburgh * Used latest technology to improve efficiency * Used vertical integration * Carnegie Steel controlled every phase of steel production process (from mining iron ore‚ to RR’s‚ to mills) * By 1900‚ Carnegie Steel produced more steel than entire country of Britain * Sold Carnegie Steel for $400 million in 1900 * Philanthropy and his attitude toward wealth (read Carnegie doc on
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produce other goods 5. Bessemer Process- The technological breakthrough that launched the rise of heavy industry was the discovery of a new process for making large quantities of steel 6. Andrew Carnegie- Leadership of the fast-growing steel industry passed to a shrewd business genius‚ Andrew Carnegie‚ who in the 1850s had worked his way up from being a poor Scottish immigrant to becoming the superintendent of a Pennsylvania railroad 7. Vertical Integration- which a company would control every
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captains of industry. This is because most of the given people all affected the country and the business world positively for reasons that are stated as well as others. Although a couple people are obviously Robber Barons‚ for example Cornelius Vanderbilt‚ most of the rest are obviously captains of industry‚ donating money‚ making money and becoming a key reason for how the business industry became as fair as it is now. All of these people have in some way either contributed to the increase of productivity
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