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Ch.7 Times of Plenty
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Henry Ford | An entrepreneur and inventor who developed the Model T car |
| Model T | Built on an assembly line. Sold at a low price and all looked exactly alike and the same color - black-. Produced from 1908-1927. By 1913, 40% of the cars in the U.S. 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 cars together as they go by on a 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 U.S. auto industry. |
| Mass Production | Making of a 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 newspaper |