Great Scot!  He came to America in 1848 & rose from bobbin boy in a cotton factory to a steel magnate
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The Men Who Built America (summary) - Conneaut Area City Schools  The man who provided the steel for the bridge, Andrew Carnegie, was a rising industrialist. ... He would go on to become one of the nation's foremost business tycoons, ..... Henry Ford's contributions to American manufacturing were great, but ... found employment as a bobbin boy at a cotton factory, earning $1.20 a week.
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Andrew Carnegie - Wikipedia  His first job at age 13 in 1848 was as a bobbin boy, changing spools of thread in a cotton mill 12 hours a day, 6 days a week in a Pittsburgh cotton factory.
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Meet You in Hell reaction - Bill Ferrari Mr. Maher AP US History II ...  ... grew substantially as we climbed to the lead in industrialization over Great Britain. ... The American steel legend Andrew Carnegie wasn't born with a silver ... in fact he was born in Dunfermline, Scotland and came to the U.S. in 1848 with his ... Carnegie started working as a bobbin boy in a cotton mill making $1.20 an...
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Andrew Carnegie facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  The Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie ... Leader of the American steel industry from 1873 to 1901, he disposed of his great fortune by ... The father obtained employment in a cotton factory, which he soon quit to ... to door; Andrew, in the same mill, became a bobbin boy at $1.20 a week.
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This question originally aired on June 24, 2005... | Jeopardy ...  Jun 24, 2005 ... ... TO AMERICA Question: Great Scot! He came to America in 1848 & rose from bobbin boy in a cotton factory to a steel magnate Answer:...
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"The American Heritage 40: A Ranking of the Forty Wealthiest ...  After graduating from high school in 1855, he worked as a bookkeeper and clerk in ... but it survived until 1911 by the rise of another novelty, the holding company. ... Steel $250 million (in 1901) GNP/ENW: 83 Today's value: $100.5 billion ... he started a steamship line. lie set his rates so low that his rivals either had to pay...
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7 Things You May Not Know About Jesse James - History Lists  Dec 8, 2014 ... From his days as a teenage Confederate guerilla to his murder at age 34, ... On December 7, 1869, 22-year-old Jesse James robbed the Daviess ... Founded in Chicago in 1850 by Allan Pinkerton, a Scottish immigrant who had served as ... Jesse and Frank's 8-year-old half-brother and caused their mother,...
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Andrew Carnegie facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  Leader of the American steel industry from 1873 to 1901, he disposed of his great ... were some men who manipulated the corporate securities of the companies they ... merger of the era; and it was the end of Carnegie's career as a steel-master. ... The fierce desire to rise and to help take care of the family (he was soon its...
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Empires of Industry Andrew Carnegie and the Age of Steel History ...  Andrew Carnegie and the Age of Steel visits historic ironworks-namely Saugus and Hopewell-as we... more .... Empires of Industry - Black Gold: The Story of Oil (History Channel) ... They show a photo of Carnegie with a man I believe to be Booker T. Washington. ... Here too the viewer learns too little for it to be of much use.
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POLITICS IN THE 1840s, JAMES K  He escaped from slavery at 21 and in 1845 wrote the Narrative of the Life of ... The continued existence of TX as an independent nation threatened to ... able to elect Polk, Young Hickory, because he was a protg of Jackson. ... Polk was considered a dark horse candidate but his support of the Manifest ... His job is just
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Andrew Carnegie - Wikipedia  Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the ... He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which he sold to J.P. Morgan in 1901 for $480 million (2015 per share ... Lauder's son, also named George Lauder, grew up with Andrew and would become his business partner.
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Business - Ray Sahelian, M.D.  1893 American Railway Union founded by Eugene Debs ..... Andrew Carnegie 1835-1919 steel magnate sold 1901, The weaver's cottage where this American steel king was born is part of a museum in Dunfermline, In 1889 a Braddock, PA...
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A Frame for Understanding the 1850s  The plantation economy, dominated by the production of cotton, was a ... by Eli Whitney's cotton gin and by the industrialization of textile manufacturing in Great Britain and, ... The white inhabitant of Ohio, obliged to subsist by his own exertions, regards temporal ... The majority of the nation's richest individuals were planters.
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1000+ images about Carnegiana (pics of all things Carnegian) on ...  Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland in 1835. (He died in 1919.) He was an immigrant to America and a great philanthropist who created more than 20...
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Freedom: A History of US. Biography. John Calhoun | PBS  But he also loved his home state of South Carolina, and he supported its institution of slavery. He believed in states' ... Calhoun was born in 1782 on a small cotton farm. Growing up, he saw how ... Some people called Calhoun a war hawk because he encouraged the nation to go to war against England in 1812. He became...
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Andrew Carnegie - Wikipedia  Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the ... He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which he sold to J.P. Morgan in 1901 for $480 million (2015 per share of GDP, $370 .... Man must have no idol and the amassing of wealth is one of the worst species of idolatry!
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J! Archive - Show #4902, aired 2005-12-27  In South America: ... gave up this accessory & became the spokespud for the Great American ... He's Huck Finn's African-American raftmate...
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The name of this Scot who invented the steam hammer sounds just ...  Jul 24, 2016 - 29 sec - Uploaded by Videos Amazing TubeThe name of this Scot who invented the steam hammer sounds just like the American # Quiz ...
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Texas enters the Union - Dec 29, 1845 - HISTORY.com  After gaining independence from Spain in the 1820s, Mexico welcomed foreign settlers to ... On December 29, 1845, Texas entered the United States as a slave state, .... On this day in 1947, the actor Ted Danson, who will become best known for his ... James Joyce was born in Dublin, the eldest of 10 children of a cheerful...
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So, what have the Scots ever done for us? Just 101 of the ...  Jan 14, 2012 ... Scotland may not have progressed past the first round in the 1978 World ... the Sea Wolf in the Napoleonic Wars, left the UK in official disgrace. ... After only one year, he was named the best doctor ever by readers of ..... is credited to Scot James Watt, who first applied it to a steam engine on .... Uncle Sam.
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Carnegie, Andrew - An Immigrants Tale, New Opportunities, The ...  In his lifetime, Andrew Carnegie built a vast fortune by making steel. ... United States into a new industrial age, and became the foundation for U.S. Steel in 1901. ... Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835, in Dunfermline, Scotland. ... Carnegie refused to sell stock in his company, giving him total control and the ability to...