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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1856, Scott advises him to buy what company as his first stock investment?

2. Railroads need huge amounts of what to construct track and more as they expand?

3. What does Andrew dislike about the oil business that seems beyond control of management until the 1880s and Rockefeller?

4. Success is due to the first president, ________________, and the superintendent of the western division, Tom Scott, who brings Andrew Carnegie into the modern system of train control.

5. This old craft is destroyed in _______ years, along with Will Carnegie's job and his town's main source of income.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the Carnegies leave Scotland?

2. What does Andrew do from 1867 through 1872?

3. What agreement is made between the triumvirate and James L. Shaw?

4. What happens on July 15, 1848?

5. How is Pittsburgh important at this time?

6. Describe the Columbia Oil Company.

7. What does Carnegie do in Europe?

8. What does Carnegie do when Pacific dividend payments stop?

9. How do family members and friends help immigrants? How is Carnegie's family helped?

10. How does Andrew escape the textile mills?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Carnegie invests in the Keystone Bridge Company.

Part 1) What is the Keystone Bridge Company? How is this investment significant? What investments and decisions lead up to this investment?

Part 2) Why might a company such as the Keystone Bridge Company be so important at this time? What connection does this company have with railroads and the telegraph?

Part 3) If Carnegie were alive today, in what types of companies might he invest? Why? If you were to invest in a company, which one would it be? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Andrew escapes the coal and oil of textile mills.

Part 1) How does he escape? To where does he escape? How does he benefit from this? How do his experiences in these mills influence him?

Part 2) How important are his early careers to his life as a capitalist and then as entrepreneur? How does he use the knowledge he gains throughout his life in his career decisions? How does he benefit from doing this?

Part 3) How might your own work experiences influence you as an adult in the work force? What experiences have already occurred in your life that will be beneficial in the future?

Essay Topic 3

The "American dream" characterizes America.

Part 1) What is the "American dream?" How does it characterize America? How did this dream come to be? How did this dream affect immigration into the United States? How does it affect immigration into our country today?

Part 2) How was Andrew Carnegie affected by this dream? What role did this dream play in his rise in power and Carnegie's being the richest man in the world?

Part 3) How are you affected by the "American dream?" How do you see this "dream" in your own community and in the U.S. as a whole? Do you believe it is as strong as it was over one hundred years ago? Why or why not?

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