WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Question
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Carnegie allowed Frick to widen the road thus lowered/weakened the dam.
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Frick was selfish and cared about money more than anything else.
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Johnstown’s people ignored the warning of the flood.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The South Fork Dam in Pennsylvania collapses on May 31, 1889, causing the Johnstown Flood, killing more than 2, 200 people. Johnstown is 60 miles east of Pittsburgh in a valley near the Allegheny, Little Conemaugh and Stony Creek Rivers.
Detailed explanation-2: -To the residents of Johnstown and many people across the nation, blame lay clearly with Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and the other wealthy and prominent Pittsburgh businessmen who as members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club owned the dam, and thus were responsible for its collapse.
Detailed explanation-3: -When the flood happened, Carnegie happened to be in Paris, France. From Paris, Carnegie, through the American ambassador, Whitelaw Reid, called a meeting of Americans to address the disaster. On November 28, 1889, he came to Johnstown and donated $10, 000 for the rebuilding of the public library in Johnstown.
Detailed explanation-4: -Until May 31, 1889, that is. That’s when a dam altered by the exclusive club burst, and the unthinkable happened. Torrents of water rushed downstream as the dam failed, inundating nearby Johnstown with 16 million tons of water and wiping out much of the town. The flood ended up being the deadliest in American history.