New Wealth of the Late Nineteenth Century

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…honesty. Andrew Carnegie, the primary rags-to-riches example, believed that the wealthy should be distributed their surplus money to the public in the form of civic philanthropy. Booker T. Washington taught his black students that the way to total political and civil rights was by first developing educationally and economically. These three men all viewed the new wealth as a positive aspect of the time period and used the wealth to advocate beliefs of their own.