Who Was Andrew Carnegie?

Who was Andrew Carnegie? Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish man that became an American industrialist. Moving to Pennsylvania at a young age, Carnegie started working in a textile factory. Carnegie started up a steel company that had multiple stages of production. The different stages of production that his company ran were transportation, manufacturing, and distribution. In the 1890’s Andrew Carnegie became a millionaire by having a lot of control over the steel industry. His steel factories were the most developed worldwide. Carnegie donated a lot of his money to different philanthropies such as giving to different towns to build libraries all over the United States. Andrew acted as a tyrant when running his companies. He had his companies working