Online Document Exercises

Index: Andrew Carnegie: The Gospel of Wealth, 1889

Read the article at the following URL. Test your knowledge by answering the questions below.

Andrew Carnegie: The Gospel of Wealth, 1889

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1889carnegie.html

 


Questions

1. Why does Carnegie feel it is important for a few people to be wealthy?

2. How did Carnegie feel the standard of living in his day compared with that of 1000 or 2000 years ago?

3. What does Carnegie see as "the duty of the man of Wealth"?

4. What did Carnegie do to fulfill that duty?