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Ch. 7 Roaring 20's
Question | Answer |
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Henry Ford | an entrepreneur and inventor who developed the Model T car |
Model T | built on assembly line. Sold at low price and all were exactly alike and black. Produced from 1908-1927. By 1913, 40% of US cars were model T's. By 1920, half of the world's cars were Model T's. |
assembly line | workers stand in one place and put parts of the cars together on a moving belt. a car would be built in an hour and a half. Without assembly line, took 12 hours. Ford payed workers $5 a day instead of $2.34 like other workers. Revolutionized industry. |
Detroit, MI | Ford's first assembly line factory to produce Model T cars. Would become the center of the US auto industry. |
Mass Production | The making of large numbers of goods that are exactly alike. |
Mass Media | Public forms of communication that reach larges audiences. |