The Automobile
The Roaring 20's section covering the automobile. Please answer the questions and the post your score
- 1.What was a major result of Henry Ford’s innovative manufacturing techniques?
- A.
The sale price of the average car increased.
- B.
The sale price of cars went down.
- C.
More Americans bought cars from overseas
- D.
Fewer Americans had jobs.
- 2.The demand for automobiles in the 1920s
- A.
Stimulated growth in many other industries
- B.
Led to a nationwide recession.
- C.
Closed down the steel industry.
- D.
Brought about the collapse of the suburbs.
- 3.How was Henry Ford able to reduce the sale price of the Model T?
- A.
The location of Ford’s plant gave him easy access to resources and allowed him to reduce the price.
- B.
He studied the techniques of Chicago meatpacking houses and used their same processes
- C.
Ford kept his workers happy by paying them well and giving them a 40-hour work week
- D.
Ford put his cars on moving assembly lines and reduced the time it took to make a car.
- 4.What is the manufacturing method in which each worker performs one step
- A.
Extractive production
- B.
Imperialism
- C.
Mass production
- D.
Bull Market
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