USA HISTORY

THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825

AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIZATION FACTORY SYSTEM AND MARKET REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
“It will be a great mistake for the community to shoot the millionaires, for they are the worker bees that make the most honey, and contribute the most to the hive even after they have gorged themselves.” Andrew Carnegie Carnegie statement is saying that he is:
A
a robber baron
B
a Social Darwinist
C
a Captain of Industry
D
a Prohibitionist
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -"It will be a great mistake for the community to shoot the millionaires, for they are the bees that make most of the honey, and contribute most to the hive even after they have gorged themselves full.” Carnegie meant that the rich provide the jobs necessary to keep people working and keep the economy stable.

Detailed explanation-2: -Study. Concentration is my motto-first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

Detailed explanation-3: -“This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of Wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance.”

Detailed explanation-4: -He paid his workers poorly and hated unions. During a strike at Carnegie’s Homestead steel plant in Pennsylvania, his manager fired all the workers and brought in armed guards. Violence erupted, and twenty workers and four policemen died. Carnegie became fabulously-or obscenely-wealthy.

Detailed explanation-5: -In addition to funding libraries, he paid for thousands of church organs in the United States and around the world. Carnegie’s wealth helped to establish numerous colleges, schools, nonprofit organizations and associations in his adopted country and many others.

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