The Industrial Revoloution-- Hero's of the Era?

Question

I have an essay to write about TIR. This is the question and topic. TIR= The Industrial Revoloution.

During TIR an author by the name of Horatio Alger wrote stories of people rising from "rags to riches." People saw proof of it in men like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. Why do you think most Americans looked at these "Captians of Industry as heroes, when most factory workers during the late 19th century were exploited by the likes of Carnegie and Rockefeller?

So i need to write a 3-5 paragraph essay on this. Any ideas or input in what i could say in it? Please help, this is for AP History. I really need to raise my grade. I am starting to write it now. Thanks!

Why would people who worked in factories during the Industrial Revolution see Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller as heroes when they were being exploited? Historians have a few ideas on why that would be. It can surely be said that not all workers of the Industrial Revolution were happy with the way they were treated by Carnegie and Rockefeller. For the most part people saw them in a good light.
The most sensible reason for why the people of the Industrial Revolution may have seen these two men as “heroes” or “Captains of Industry”, may have been the story of their struggles. People viewed these men as a true “rags to riches” story. Many people of the era hated how the men exploited them and their fellow coworkers. Most of them still viewed them as more of a hated idol. Their stories were inspiring and uplifting to most folks. Many new inventions had been brought about such as; a steam engine (James Watt), the cotton gin and a musket with interchangeable parts (Eli Whitney),

the steam boat (Robert Fulton), the telegraph (Samuel F.B Morse), sewing machine improvements (Isaac Singer), Transatlantic Cable (Cyrus Field), the telephone (Alexander Grahambell), the phonograph and incandescent light bulb (Thomas Edison), the electric motor (Nikola Tesla), a diesel engine (Rudolf Diesel), the very first air plane (Wilbur and Orville Wright), and the model T/ assembly line (Henry Ford). With all these new inventions and inventors, the people saw an opportunity. They too could make an invention and become unthinkably wealthy just like Carnegie or Rockefeller. This was why the people saw the men as heroes, maybe even as inspirations or future business rivals!
This idea became somewhat a part of the American Dream that we know today. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness with the shared hope of becoming fabulously wealthy, famous, and successful! Many people of the era had this common dream as do the people of today and for that we can thank the men with the

the biggest monopolies, Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller.

Answer 1

they are consider hero cos they continue to build factories
most businessman will consider all risk before expansion
Carnegie and Rockefeller are not union hero but risk taker hero