case study- Detroit

Question 1

main industry in the early 1900s

Answer 1

iron and copper mining

Question 2

when did Ford open a car manufacturing implant

Answer 2

-early 1900s
- starts industrialisation of Detroit

Question 3

what car manufacturers also opened assembly lines in the 1900s

Answer 3

• general motors

Question 4

why did the population of Detroit grow in the 1910s and 20s

Answer 4

• immigration
  -working class people moved in for high pay work

Question 5

when did the economy boom

Answer 5

-1920s
-American dream

Question 6

1950s population

Answer 6

• peak population
  -inner city decay begins

Question 6

how did globalisation lead to the downfall of detroit

Answer 6

-competition from Japanese and German car manufacturers

Question 7

What happened in the 1970s that led to the downfall of Detroit

Answer 7

-oil and gas prices rose
-Americans couldn’t afford US made cars

Question 8

how did deindustrialisation lead to the downfall of Detroit

Answer 8

-factories outsourced workers for less money
-US factories closed

Question 9

how did desegregation lead to the downfall of Detroit

Answer 9

-50s and 60s
-official desegregation laws dropped
-black families move to white areas
-lead to racial tensions
-white flight
-urban doughnut
-neighbourhoods with more minorities were neglected and more harshly policed
-1967 race riots, 40 deaths

Question 10

war on drugs

Answer 10

-1960s
-crack cocaine
-cheaper in inner city black neighbourhoods
-gov made sentences for crack cocaine higher
-more black inner city residents arrested
-less income for black families in inner city

Question 11

how many Detroit schools shut in 2009

Answer 11

-80
-mainly inner city
-cycle of poverty continues

Question 12

future of Detroit

Answer 12

• pure Michigan- attracts tourists, helps tertiary sector
• motor city blight busters, demolish abandoned houses