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What was the name of the first car created for the average working person?
Model T
What was the name of the person that developed the first car for the average person?
Henry Ford
What was the name of Henry Ford's company?
Ford Motor Company
What year was the first low cost vehicle introduced?
1908
When cars were first produced, who were the only people that could afford them?
the wealthy
Why were only the wealthy buying cars?
Because they were the only ones who could afford them.
What was the price of the first affordable car?
$825
Why was it so important for there to be ways to make the affordable car even less expensive?
The lower the price, the more customers and the more money he would make.
What was so special about the way the first cars were made?
they were handcrafted
What did it mean that each automobile was slightly different than the other?
Because they were handcrafted one at a time. No one was exactly the same.
Why did it take so long for a car to be made when they first came out?
they were handcrafted
to save time and money
What did Henry Ford do to start making cars differently?
He wanted to make them all the same by using a moving assembly line.
What year did Henry Ford start making cars a different way which changed the development of transportation drastically?
1913
What did the moving assembly line accomplish?
it turned cars around faster and made the price lower because of that.
After a period of time, with the new way of making a car, how fast would a car be produced?
One every 90 minutes
What does "earning record profits" mean?
earning the most money ever over
What year did Henry Fords company earn record making profit?
1915
What does "profit" mean?
to make money - in the black
what does in the red mean?
not making money, losing money
What year did were half the cars one model type?
1918
What car did half of the United States have in 1918?
Model T
What does it mean, "Almost overnight, the US became a nation on wheels"
the trend of the affordable car was so successful that everyone was buying them and it happened super fast.
Who do you think Henry Ford is?
A man who built cars
What was the Model T?