History

Question 1

When did he start work

Answer 1

Started work at the age of 12 because his Father was a textile worker and lost his job to the steam power.

Question 2

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 2

Richest man
Most contradictory of the robber barons: he supported workers’ rights, but destroyed unions; and when he acquired the largest fortune in US history, he tried to give it away

Question 3

When his father dies…

Answer 3

Andrew becomes the main family breadwinner. He was promoted to manager and oversees railway expansion

Question 4

Civil war

Answer 4

As voids fighting in the civil war by paying a replacement to fight for him

Question 5

James Eads

Answer 5

Employed in 1868 by Carnegie
He was a designer without bridge building experience
Needed to build a bridge over a mine long to span the Mississippi at St Louis, Missouri. Connecting the East and West.

Question 6

New Bridge with James Eads

Answer 6

One in Four bridges Fail
Carnegie invests in everything
The traditional metal, iron, wasn’t strong enough to withstand the weight of freight carried over the bridge.
They needed to use steel, the strongest material ever.

Question 7

Henry Bessemer

Answer 7

In Sheffield
With his mass production solution the time it takes to make a single rail goes from two weeks to 15 minutes

Even with this Carnegie falls behind a year and is in debt

Question 8

1873

Answer 8

At the age of 33, Carnegie unites America with the opening of the St Louis bridge

to convince people it is safe, an elephant walks across it because of the myth the elephants won’t cross unstable structures

Question 9

Causes of the new Bridge

Answer 9

Steel orders rise, railroad owners wanting to replace their tracks with stronger material

Carnegie and Tom Scott raises 21 million and build his first steel plant.
The 100 acre steel mill is the country’s largest capable of producing 225 tonnes a day.

Question 10

Scotts Death

Answer 10

Carnegie blames Rockefeller and seeks revenge because he moved his oil off railroads
Died in 1881

Now he is producing 10,000 tons of steel a month and making 1.5 million profits per year

Question 11

Manhattan

Answer 11

Builds skyscrapers to expand Manhattan with Steel.
The first Chicago skyscraper is built with Carnegie Steel
This makes him the richest man in America even thought Rockefeller is worth more then him.

Question 12

Born
And where

Died

Answer 12

November 25, 1835
Dunfermline, Scotland

August 11, 1919