USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

AMERICAN ECONOMY IN THE 1920S

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What became a model for the manufacturing of American cars and consumer products?
A
The assembly line
B
Slavery
C
Sharecropping
D
Tenant Farming
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Model T : The Model T, introduced in 1908, was the first car to be mass-produced on an assembly line.

Detailed explanation-2: -In an assembly line, car assembly is split between several stations, all working simultaneously. When a station is finished with a car, it passes it on to the next. By having three stations, three cars can be operated on at the same time, each at a different stage of assembly.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Ford Motor Company team decided to try to implement the moving assembly line in the automobile manufacturing process. After much trial and error, in 1913 Henry Ford and his employees successfully began using this innovation at our Highland Park assembly plant.

Detailed explanation-4: -The assembly line sped up the manufacturing process dramatically. It allowed factories to churn out products at a remarkable rate, and also managed to reduce labor hours necessary to complete a product-benefiting many workers who used to spend 10 to 12 hours a day in the factory trying to meet quotas.

Detailed explanation-5: -Henry Ford introduced the Assembly line method for producing automobiles on a large scale.

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