1. Carnegie becomes an expert in Pittsburgh's _____________ business.
(a) Financial.
(b) Manufacturing.
(c) Commercial.
(d) Mining.

2. A typical pattern in the ____________ century is that a community builds up around a few pioneers who leave their homeland and then encourage friends and relatives to join them.
(a) Nineteenth.
(b) Eighteenth.
(c) Seventeenth.
(d) Sixteenth.

3. _____________ is the focal point that straddles the east-west route where the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers join at the Ohio River.
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Youngstown.
(c) Cleveland.
(d) Pittsburgh.

4. Carnegie's career begins on July 15, 1848, when he and his family, parents Will, Margaret and his brother Tom, do what?
(a) Sail from Great Britain with fellow Scottish passengers.
(b) Sail from Great Britain with fellow Irish passengers.
(c) Sail from France with fellow French passengers.
(d) Sail from Spain with fellow Spanish passengers.

5. Within _______ years of arriving in America, the Carnegies recoup their fortune through the help of their friends, relatives, and countrymen in America and earn more income that they ever received in Scotland.
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Eight.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people immigrate from the Old to the New World to embed the dream into an image of America far stronger than the success of a few like the Guggenheims and Vanderbilts?

2. Who is Cuban Roberto Goizuetta?

3. Andrew's job delivering telegraph messages puts him in touch with whom?

4. What is the town's industry in 1835?

5. The Carnegies stay in their homeland as long as they can until conditions become intolerable in what town?

(see the answer key)

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