Factories
Changes
Ford vs. Olds
Reasons
Vocabulary words
100

Invented the assembly line

Henry Ford

100

To improve the way the government is run

Reform

100

First automobile manual

Olds

100

Reason for the first 8 lane highway

Cars

100

Do not have a job

Unemployed

200

Making large numbers of one product quickly

Mass production

200

A group that worked to make changes to help people

Progressives

200

Made the Model T

Ford

200

Reason cars became cheaper

Assembly line

200

To stop working until a group's demands are met

Strike

300

Workers are arranged so that each worker has one job

Assembly line

300

The right to vote

Suffrage

300

Started mass production in his company

Ford

300

Reason people lost their jobs and factories closed

The Great Depression

300

Group of workers who join to improve their pay and conditions

Union

400

Parts that are identical for a practical purpose

Interchangeable parts

400

A formal change made to official rules

Amendment

400

Opened Michigan's first auto company

Olds

400

Reason Berlin, MI changed its name to Marne, MI

Suspicious of the Germans in WWI

400

Where shares of companies are bought and sold

Stock market

500

To get a product from an outside source

Outsourcing

500

The year the 19th amendment was passed giving women suffrage

1920

500

Changed how people traveled

Ford AND Olds

500

Reason Hazen Pingree planted potatoes

Mayor of Detroit who wanted to help needy people

500

A business where all workers must join a union

Closed shop