The Progressives
Birth of the Automobile
World War I and Hard Times
Extras
100
How did Hazen Pingree try to help the poor?
he cut the costs of streetcars and gas heat
100
Who helped to form the UAW (United Auto Workers)?
Walter Reuther
100
What was lowered during the Great Depression?
The number of jobs in the economy
100
What is the best way to explain how Henry Ford changed the auto industry?
he used an assembly line
200
What did Caroline Bartlett Crane of Kalamazoo work to perform?
meatpacking
200
What is the process of performing one step in the process of making a product?
assembly line
200
What is another meaning for the word strike?
refusal to work
200
What is the name of the first car created by Henry Ford?
Model T
300
What were Thomas Palmer and Anna Howard Shaw both supporters of?
the right of women to vote
300
What uses workers and machinery to make goods?
mass production
300
What is the meaning of closed shops?
only union members could work
300
What does it mean to be unemployed?
they did not have jobs
400
After Congress passed a law in 1924 that limited imigration, who did Michigan factories attract?
African Americans
400
What is the cause of many workers to lose their jobs?
The Great Depression hit
400
Who does a union try to win benefits for?
workers
400
What were the group of people called that worked to make life better for the poor?
Progressives
500
What is the group of Americans that came unders suspicion of being spies during World War I?
German Americans
500
Compare how Ransom Olds and Henry Ford played in building Michigan's auto industry.
Olds formed the first automobile company in MI, launching the auto industry. Ford changed the industry by using the assembly line.
500
What is the reason auto workers formed a union?
They wanted to win better working conditions?
500
In 1910, about 1 million people owned cars, by 1930, about 23 million owned cars. People could travel farther more quickly. They could take cars to places that trains couldn't. They made peoples lives easier.
What is the effect of the automobile industry on life in the United States?
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