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Booms And Busts of the United States

It took less time than if each assembled the car piece by piece before starting on assembling another car. Since people needed to be trained in one aspect of the job, the workers were mostly unskilled workers so they were paid less than the more skilled motor manufacturers which meant more profit. Henry Ford's famous statement was that people could have their car in any color they wanted as long it was black. This prevented the risk of spending extra money in colors that would probably not be popular. This allowed him to buy in bulk which meant Ford could get discounts and make the cars cheaper. These mass produced cars were cheaper than the previous cars so people were finally able to afford to buy a car and it was easier with credit and paying the car over time. The car industry provided jobs to people and allowed money to be spent.
             After the boom of the 1920's, the United States went into a financial crisis that lasted throughout the 1930's. This financial crisis was later known as the Great Depression. There were many factors that played into the bringing about the depression but the main cause for the Great Depression was the combination of the market crash and the weak banking system in the United States. Throughout the boom of the 1920's, the stock prices went up and more than quadrupled from 1920 to 1929. Several people became convinced that stocks were a sure thing so they bought a lot of stocks. But then in 1929, stocks started to go down pretty quick and by 1932 and 1933, they had hit rock bottom. Many people who had bought their share of stocks on margin lost everything they had and this caused contractions towards the money supply in the economy. People used borrowed money that they couldn't repay because of the weak banking system, another reason for the Great Depression.
             The weak banking system was another reason for the Great Depression. The country had a lot of small banks that did not have the necessary resource to be able to meet the high demand of people when they wanted to take out their money from their accounts once they heard about the possibility of the stock market crashing.


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