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Ch.7 Roaring 20's
Times of Plenty, Times of Hardship
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Henry Ford | an entrepreneur and inventor who developed the Model T car |
| Model T | Built on an assembly line. Produced from 1908-1927 |
| T Model | sold at a low price and looked exactly alike and same color-black |
| Cars | By 1913, 40% of the cars in the US were Model T's. 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 a moving belt. Revolutionized industry |
| Model T's building ways | 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 |
| Ford's paying | Ford made enough money to pay workers $5 a day instead of the $2.34 other workers got paid. |
| Detroit, MI | Ford's first assembly line factory to produce Model T cars. Would become the center of the US auto industry |
| mass production | making of a large number of goods that are exactly alike. One of the most popular was the radio |
| mass media | public forms of communication to reach large audiences like radio, television, newspapers |
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