Andrew Carnegie Background Essay

In what year and in what country was Andrew Carnegie born?

• 1835 England

• 1840 in Germany

• 1840 Ireland

• 1835 in Scotland

What specific evidence is there in the Background Essay that Andrew Carnegie grew up poor?

• Born in an attic

• School room had 150 kids.

• Earned $1.20 a week as a bobbin boy.

• None of the above

• All of the above

In what industry during the 1850s and ’60s did Carnegie make his first mini-fortune?

• Steel

• Railroad

• Automobile

• Banking

At the age of 33 in New York City, Carnegie wrote a letter to himself. The gist of the letter was that with a likely annual income of $50,000, Carnegie planned to give up the business world for the world of helping others.

• True

• False

What caused Carnegie to remain in the world of business?

• None of the above

• He visited England, met Henry Bessemer, and became excited about this new way of 
  iron-making.

• He visited Germany, met Henry Bessemer, and became excited about this new way of 
  steel-making.

• He visited England, met Henry Bessemer, and became excited about this new way of 
  steel-making.

_____ is iron that has had carbon impurities removed from it. It is much stronger than iron.

In what year and for how much did Carnegie sell his steel works?

• 1900; $480,000,000

• 1902; $400,000,000

• 1900; $400,000,000

• 1919; $480,000,000

What was Carnegie’s personal share of this sale?

• $200 million

• $225 million

• $480 million

• $400 million

______ ___ a child who removes the spindles of yarn as they come off the spinning machine.

_______ ____ a factory for making cloth from raw materials like cotton or silk.