Name: ________________________________________________ Date: _____________________________ Class: ____

Carnegie and the Era of Steel

Andrew

largely

resources, transportation, and industrial

responsible for the great advances in steel

plants involved in the making of steel. In

production.

to

the 1890s, new companies challenged his

America from Scotland as a child of 12,

preeminence. He would be persuaded to

progressed from bobbin boy in a cotton

merge

factory to a job in a telegraph office, then

corporation that would embrace most of

to one on the Pennsylvania Railroad.

the important iron and steel properties in

Before he was 30 years old he had made

the nation.

shrewd

Carnegie

Carnegie,

and

was

who

farsighted

came

his

holdings

into

new

investments,

which by 1865 were concentrated in iron.

1. Who was largely responsible for the

Within a few years, he had organized or

great advances in American steel

had stock in companies making iron

production?

bridges, rails, and locomotives. Ten years

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later, he built the nation's largest steel

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mill on the

Monongahela

in

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Pennsylvania.

He acquired control not

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River

only of new mills, but also of coke and

coal properties, iron ore from Lake

2. Describe Andrew Carnegies rise to

Superior, a fleet of steamers on the Great

power in the U.S. steel industry.

Lakes, a port town on Lake Erie, and a

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connecting railroad. His business, allied

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with

commanded

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favorable terms from railroads and

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shipping lines. Nothing comparable in

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industrial growth had ever been seen in

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America before.

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dozen

others,

Though Carnegie long dominated

the

industry,

he

never

achieved

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complete monopoly over the natural

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