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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: The Decade That Roared

For Students 5th - 8th
A very brief overview of the decade between the end of World War I and the Great Depression.
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Activity
National Inventors Hall of Fame

National Inventors Hall of Fame: Henry Ford

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography on the automotive engineer, Henry Ford.
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Website
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: Biographies: Henry Ford Biografia (Espanol)

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography of Henry Ford. Ford's great ideas were to improve the inventions around him and to produce them very efficiently. Good links to pictures and other information.
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Henry Ford and the Model T

For Students 9th - 10th
Henry Ford created the Model T car, the first affordable automobile, and in 1913 introduced mass production of automobiles.
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Handout
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Inventor of the Week: Henry Ford

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from MIT Invention Dimension is a brief profile of Henry Ford focusing on the Assembly Line.
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Article
University of Washington

University of Washington: United Auto Workers (Uaw) Locals 1937 1949

For Students 9th - 10th
History of the United Auto Workers (UAW) with maps showing the spread of the UAW from 1939 through the late 1940s.