HIST 2057 Chapter : Prosperity Decade
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Prosperity decade, the 1920s: economy before, focus on increasing production. Introducing conveyor belt: able to assemble a car in 14 hours, 1925: ford is producing 1 car every 10 seconds. 1929: only takes 93 minutes to assemble a car. Introduces 5 day work week, instead of 6 day work week: didn"t rely on other companies for raw material, bought his own raw materials, river rouge plant. You can get a model t in any color you want as long as it"s black. : factory workers could afford to buy a car, end of 1920s: 1 in 5 americans owned a car, construction. If people have automobiles, they can live further away from where they work: building booms, especially for houses, suburbs! Just outside of main downtown, exclusively residential: very different from today, middle and upper middle class people, expanding the city; need more workers, number of houses outside of large cities double or even triple during.
