WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
ANDREW CARNEGIE
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Researched better ways to make steel
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Put profits back into the business
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Used machines to replace workers
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Focused on safety rather than efficiency
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the early 1870s, Carnegie co-founded his first steel company, near Pittsburgh. Over the next few decades, he created a steel empire, maximizing profits and minimizing inefficiencies through ownership of factories, raw materials and transportation infrastructure involved in steel making.
Detailed explanation-2: -Steel meant more jobs, national prestige, and a higher quality of life for many. For Carnegie’s workers, however, cheap steel meant lower wages, less job security, and the end of creative labor.
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: Andrew Carnegie (b. 1835-1919) gained control of the U.S. steel industry by producing quality steel at low prices and by taking over every stage of production, eventually gaining a monopoly.
Detailed explanation-4: -Carnegie Steel Company was a steel-producing company primarily created by Andrew Carnegie and several close associates to manage businesses at steel mills in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area in the late 19th century.