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Cars Everywhere
The industry that affected the United States more than any other was the automobile industry. The American auto industry began with Henry Ford's first “contraption” in 1893. Ford, who started the Ford Motor Company in Detroit in 1903 with $28,000, was later to revolutionize industry with mass production. In 1909, Ford began production of the “Model T,” a car so basic and inexpensive that everyone not only the rich could afford one. The freedom the automobile gave the individual fit in with the American character. America has been running on automobiles ever since, even if it now imports many of them from elsewhere.
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