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Andrew Carnegie: Captain of Industry or Robber Baron?
Explain how each of the following persons would have viewed Carnegie’s successes and shortcomings?
Perspective
Andrew Carnegie himself
A worker in the Homestead
Steel Company
An avid reader in a small
town with a Carnegie
library
Present-day American
historian
Type of Image
(Positive or
Negative?)
Reasons
Name: ____________________________ Date: ________ Period: _______
Industrialists: Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?
A) Were industrial leaders best characterized as robber barons or captains of
industry? Explain.
B) Explain ONE ideological justification to support the view that industrial
leaders were robber barons.
C) Explain ONE ideological justification to support the view that industrial
leaders were captains of industry.
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