The Men Who Built America

The American Dream (1x8)

Air date: Dec 08, 2012

At the head of the United States from 1901 to 1909, Roosevelt continued his anti-trust policy. After the empire of the banker and industrialist JP Morgan, he tackled the Standard Oil of John D. Rockefeller. At the start of the 20th century, a new generation of businessmen was gradually emerging, particularly with the emergence of the automotive sector. Henry Ford manages to find investors to produce the first car accessible to the general public: the T model. The implementation of the production method he invented, the assembly line, in the early 1910s, revolutionized the industry American by promoting mass consumption. He becomes one of the richest businessmen in the world.