Carnegie was able to monopolize the steel industry from 1889 to around 1901 when he sold his business to J.P. Morgan, the U.S.'s most prominent banker. John D. Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust.
I think it really depends on what you believe in. However, if you're talking about a classification of a bi-racial child, then the child is most likely as to what ethnic the father is.
After the first permanent English colony was settled in 1607, English colonists soon populated the entire eastern seaboard of the present-day United States.