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Ch. 7 roaring 20's
Term | Definition |
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Henry Ford | an entrepreneur and inventor who developed the Model T car. |
Model T | built on an assembly line. Sold at low price and all looked exactly alike and the same color black. produced from 1908-1927. By 1920, half of the cars in the world were Model T's. |
assembly line | workers stand in one place and put parts of the car together as they go by on the moving belt. Ford's workers could build a car in an hour and a half when it took other cars 12 hours to build without the assembly line. |
Detroit, MI | Ford's first assembly line factory to produce Model T cars. Would become the center of the US industry. |
mass production | making of large number of goods that are exactly alike. one of most popular was the radio. |
mass media | public forms of communication to reach large audiences like radio, television, and newspapers. |