Automobiles During 1920s

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automobiles during 1920s
history questoons us plz help!?

1. What were four new industries, in addition to the automotive industry, which grew in importance during the 1920s? 2. What Henry Ford to increase the loyalty of workers and the impact of the labor movement? 3. How to change the level cars of life during the 1920s?

1. The Rouge Rouge plant in Michigan, including all the elements needed for automobile production: a mill steel, glass factory and a car assembly line. Iron ore and coal is carried to the Great Lakes and vapors by the railroad, and were used to produce iron and steel. Rolling mills, forging and assembly shops transforms the steel into springs, axles and chassis. The Model T Ford. Foundries converted iron engine blocks and heads that were assembled with other components in the engines. In September 1927, every step of the manufacturing process of refining raw materials to assembly end of the car was in the big Rouge plant, the characterization of Henry Ford's idea of mass production. The expansion of industrial activity after the Spanish-American War of 1898-1999 led to the recovery of growth of trade unionism. The labor movement, trade declined during the 1920s. A major influence was the postwar depression of 1921-22. Unemployment rose sharply, wage cuts and speed-up methods for workers to work faster to produce more. The drastic reduction of losses caused union membership, including those of coal miners, metal miners and garment workers. The garment unions were the hardest hit by bitter strugle for power between the elements and anti-communist. This weakened the U.S. workforce movement. 3. In the 1920s U.S. had become a modern middle class economy of radios, consumer appliances, automobiles and suburbs. Nearly 30 million motor vehicles were on the road in 1929 and one in five of all U.S. residents ownership of a vehicle. Mass production had made after the Second World War the United States the richest society the world had ever seen. It is called "The Roaring Twenties. http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/slouch_roaring13.html

Roaring 1920s Automobile Gas Stations



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