Figuresof The Early America :: essays research papers

Thaddeus Stevens-   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  The U.S. Representive from Pennsylvania who was the creator of the 14th amendment was a big figure in the young United States. He was born in1792. His schooling was very impressive and he became known for his background in law. Mr. Stevens practiced law in Gettysburg and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He was a very hard and definite person when it came to justice and he even helped defeat a bill abolishing the state’s public school system and was a proponent of a protective tariff. When Stevens was in congress he was a Whig but also was totally against slavery. He was one of the leading organizers in the Republican party coming about and a very powerful figure in the American Civil War. Stevens really didn’t have a lot of love for the south because Stevens in the House and Charles Sumner in the Senate were totally against President Lincoln’s plan for reconstruction. In Steven’s eyes, the Southern states that were won needed to be the center and treated as â€Å"conquered states† as he stated. Not only this but he was a big advocate in bringing up charges to impeach Andrew Jackson. Finally, he was one of the persons responsible in getting many rights for African Americans rights by creating the 14th amendment which states â€Å"that all people born or naturalized in the United States are American citizens and citizens of their state of residence...† Andrew Carnegie-   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  This great Scottish man was born in his native on November 25, 1835. Mr. Carnegie was an iron/steel manufacture and a Philanthropist. Many people do not know that he was friends with some of the elite Americans such as Matthew Arnold, Mark Twain, William Gladstone and Theodore Roosevelt. In 1848, Carnegie’s family immigrated from his native to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from there he went from a regular boy to becoming a telegraph operator. There after he helped in the Civil War by helping to drastically improve the Union Army’s communication. He was the creator of the Keystone Bridge Company which made iron and steel. This man came from nothing then became something in the land of opportunities. By the 1900s the Carnegie Steel Company was making one fourth of all steel in the United States, there after he sold his company for $250 million. When he sold his company he retired and just began writing books and dona ting a lot of money.