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28 Cards in this Set
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What new machine changed the way people lived and worked in the 20th century?
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car
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in 1908, one man set out to make the simplest car ever, one that every man could afford. Who was that man?
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Henry Ford
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The thinking of this efficiency expert influenced Henry Ford.
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Fredrick Taylor
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What was Henry Ford's new idea?
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Moving assembly line.
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Ford's recipe was
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high wages, low costs and mass production
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What made the production process possible?
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all the new people coming in
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the 1920s started a _________ society. A whole new range of products came available for ordinary people
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consumer
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what was forbidden at all Ford plants?
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unions
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The advertising for the 1920s came over what electronic device?
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radio
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What did swapping jobs help?
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keeps you busy and doesn't bore you
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by the mid-twenties, one in _____ Americans owned a car
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5
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by the end of the decade, 29 million cars were on the road. what % were Model T's?
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50%
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what was the first European car company to copy Ford?
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Fiat
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How did British workers get paid?
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no guaranteed income- [aid you by the piece
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what did Ford also become a symbol of?
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much that seemed wrong
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____________ portrayed a brutal standardized work force dominated by mass production where _________ was God.
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Alex Huxley...................... Henry Ford
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What was the film "Modern Times" originally called?
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The masses
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What did Diego Rivera paint?
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a mural
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What political ideology did the painter belong to?
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Marxist (communist)
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How did the industrialists view the mural?
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left wing propaganda
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if you worked on the line, what did you become?
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a zombie/an animal
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what incited revolt at the Renault plant in France?
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they sped the line up
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how did Italy deal with unions?
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unions were illegal
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who did the USSR study to boost production?
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Henry Ford
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How many workers did the Great depression put out of work?
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14 million (25%)
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what did the miler road martyrs do?
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helped draw attention to the car workers place. unions became legal in 1937
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when did the show down between Ford Motor Co. and the UAW occur?
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1937
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ww2 put new pressure on the assembly line and they had to have _________ in order to win the war
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cooperation
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