USA HISTORY

WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900

ANDREW CARNEGIE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Andrew was unable to attend school, instead he borrowed books from a local citizen’s private library to teach himself
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -A generous philanthropist, he slashed the wages of the workers who made him rich. One of the captains of industry of 19th century America, Andrew Carnegie helped build the formidable American steel industry, a process that turned a poor young man into the richest man in the world.

Detailed explanation-3: -Andrew Carnegie lacked a lengthy formal education. Upon his arrival in the United States in 1848, Carnegie became enthusiastically Americanized, educating himself by reading and writing and attending night school in Allegheny, Pennsylvania.

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.

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