John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie were two great pioneers in American history. Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company and Andrew Carnegie founded the steel company. They did many great things in this country to help boost up industrial growth. Without both of their brains America would never have been the way it is now. There are many reasons why Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller were great pioneers of this country. One way they …
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…to the fact that their owners ran them with great ability. In this time period many new businesses were being formed and it took talented businessmen such as Carnegie and Rockefeller to get ahead and keep the companies running and make the money that were made in that time period. Those were some reasons why Carnegie and Rockefeller were successful in running their companies and by that they are considered great pioneers of their time.