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Between the 1870s and 1945, the US economy has undergone ups and downs. Several events have impacted on the US economy both positively and negatively. The period witnessed several significant… Read more »

Ford Assembly Line, 1902             Companies in the second industrial revolution started to build assembly lines to maximize production. Ford Motor Company, which was one… Read more »

A photograph of the 1931 “unemployed march” in St. Louis. Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California 2 In October 1929, the crash of… Read more »

  The Transformative Power of WW2 World War 2 took place during the Great Depression. The first Photo shows one of the abandoned navy yard facility in 1928. The U.S…. Read more »

Primary Source: 1, Photo Taker Unknown. Ford Assembly line, https://corporate.ford.com/articles/history/100-years-moving-assembly-line.html 2, Photo from the collections of The Henry Ford. July 4,1917 3, Jacob Riis, Ludlow Street tenement apartment circa, 1905. Cited on https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/the-cloth-cutters-of-ludlow-street/ 4,… Read more »