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    over. Andrew Carnegie was a poor boy who ended up becoming the richest man in america during 1901. He worked himself up in the Pennsylvania Railroad company and would have been successful there but he was unclear on what he wanted to do. So he decided to move to New York City where he met Henry Bessemer. Bessemer taught him how to make steel, so then Carnegie moved back to Pittsburg and set up a steel mill. There he became a steel king and it caused him to become extremely wealthy. A hero is someone

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    Was Andrew Carnegie a Hero? “The man who dies rich, dies disgraced” John Perricone Period 6 Was Andrew Carnegie a Hero? Andrew Carnegie is known as the king of steel. He was born November 25, 1835 in Dunfermline, Scotland. In 1848 he and he and his family immigrated to America and ended up in Pittsburg, where they lived in a small house and had very little money. In 1872 he traveled to England where he met Henry Bessemer, the man who converted iron into steel. He took Bessemer’s brilliant

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    Andrew Carnegie was a hero because of his work ethic and his character traits. How would you feel a person made millions of dollars and eventually thought of giving it all away? A hero is someone who is admired and looked up to for outstanding achievement. Similarly, Andrew Carnegie was looked up to and admired by many for his philanthropy and hard work. It is because he worked so hard when he was young that he was able to become so wealthy. Andrew Carnegie was a hero because of his work ethic.

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    Andrew Carnegie did amazing things with his money while and even after he was alive. He also had flaws and did some not so very good things. He used his fortune to do things like buying organs for churches, donating to colleges, and building public libraries. His Homestead steel mill, on the other hand experienced a strike and its workers were not very content, which Carnegie turned a blind eye to. So was Andrew Carnegie a hero? The Homestead steel mill was located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and

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    Andrew Carnegie, a tightfisted employer among many, but a good-hearted philanthropist among many more; however, does this really explain if he was or was not a hero? Andrew Carnegie was a scottish immigrant born in November 1835 who grew up in a poor and hard life, whose family made the tough decision to the Americas in 1848, started working at age 12 to appease his family’s financial trouble. He worked harder and harder, deciphering

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    Hero or Villain A lot of people may wonder who Andrew Carnegie was as a person. They may have also wondered if he was a hero or not. In some people’s opinion Andrew Carnegie was not a hero because he did not have the characteristics of a hero. He was an American industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry. Then became a major philanthropist, he worked in a Pittsburgh cotton factory as a boy before rising to the position of division superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1859

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    early 1900’s, the United States was known as the greatest Industrial powerhouse. America had several technological advancements happening at once, that not only improved people's lives but also made businesses flourish. Andrew Carnegie was the creator of steel, and he also found a way to mass produce it. Though Andrew Carnegie had several accomplishments and did the greater good he was not a hero in my eyes. If you were to define a hero, many would say that a hero is someone who sacrifices their

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    Andrew Carnegie grew up in Dunfermline, Scotland and immigrated along with his family to the United States in the late 1800s. He worked his way up from being a poor Irish immigrant to become one of the most famous industrialists that helped transform the U.S steel industry in the late 19th century. Andrew Carnegie was a hero in many ways. One reason why Andrew Carnegie was a hero was because of his influences on renovating the American steel industry which helped create the U.S a world power. Secondly

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    Was Andrew Carnegie a Hero? This inquiry appears to ponder in the brains of Americans. As I would see it and from what I see from the documents, Andrew Carnegie was a legend. Andrew Carnegie was born on November 1835 in Dunfermline, Scotland.(Doc 1) He experienced poverty in childhood and his folks didn't profit. Andrew Carnegie was a legend from numerous points of view. One reason behind why Andrew Carnegie was a legend was a direct result of his instinct on growing the economy and his business

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    started after the civil war and was an economic powerhouse. Once the war ended, many companies started to prosper, small businesses grew larger and larger. Many of these companies that prospered were owned by powerful individuals who ruled the nation's economy. In order to succeed in this era, you must provide the best product at the cheapest price, if unable to you were simply driven into bankruptcy or were bought up by hungry, successful industrialists. The Gilded age was a period where many people

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