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22 Cards in this Set
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What did Henry Ford learn from McGuffey’s Reader?
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Ford gained from them a clear, if unbending, ethic of hard work and clean living.
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Where did the Industrial Revolution first begin?
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The Industrial Revolution, spreading from England, met the challenges of an undeveloped continent and burgeoning US.
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What two inventions fueled Ford’s dream of a creating a self-propelled carriage?
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Bicycle, lightweight, spoke wheeled, highly maneuverable, and relatively fast, it directed attention to the possibility to the possibility of independent long distance travel over ordinary roads. Also, The emergence of an efficient gasoline engine from the shop of Nikolaus Otto in Germany.
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What did Ford do to promote his stance?
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He was a machinist, but his heart was in his homework building a gasoline engine.
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Who is credited with creating the first gas-powered vehicle in the US?
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Honor was earned by J. Frank Duryea in the early 1890s.
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What did Thomas Edison think that humans would eventually not need?
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He encouraged the notion that he never went to bed by predicting that in time people would evolve beyond the need for sleep – like machines.
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What was the dream of Ford regarding his automobile?
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Its essence was a light, rugged, reliable, and, above all, inexpensive car that the average American could afford.
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What ended the manufacturing of goods from home or small shops by skilled artisans?
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Mass production and corporate financing ended the era of home and small shop manufacturing. The second part of “artisan…” was replaced by machine operators responsible for only a small portion of the production process.
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What were the essential concepts/principles, created by Frederick Taylor, to make manufacturing more efficient?
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Obsession with speed, Faith in science and technology, Pragmatic orientation that put production results above all other considerations and Replace a worker with a machine.
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For how long would Ford build only the Model T and no other vehicle?
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Ford would build the Model T and no other for the next twenty years.
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Which tactic did Ford use in the building of his company? Horizontal Integration or Vertical Integration?
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Horizontal integration.
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What were the goals of the International Workers of the World?
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Who was the leader of the Socialist Party in the US?
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What policy did Ford create to prevent the millions of dollars he lost annually due to massive turnover among his employees?
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Adopted profit sharing
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What event caused the start of WWI?
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The war had begun when the assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 set off a whirlwind of commitment from European countries to uphold alliances in pace since the mid nineteenth century.
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What was Ford’s position on United States’ involvement in the war?
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Ford supported the President wholeheartedly
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After the US officially entered the war, how did the Ford Motor Co. contribute to the war effort?
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Ford placed his factory at the disposal of the government and its allies.
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Who were the 3 people that college students of the 1920s ranked as the top 3 greatest figures of all times?
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a. Napoleon
b. Jesus c. Ford |
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What did the Immigration Acts of the 1920s do?
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Immigration Acts used the quota system to reduce sharply the number of immigrants entering the country.
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What group of people did Ford attack?
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Jews
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What was Ford’s view on the 18th Amendment?
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Ford viewed the 18th Amendment as a triumph.
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Who did Ford support in the 1920 presidential election?
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Ford voted and contributed to the unsuccessful Democratic team of Cox and Roosevelt.
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