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1
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Why did Detroit become a successful settlement in 1776?

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Controlled by France and good defence location to keep England from using river. Great lakes and waterways provided good travel

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Describe the importance of Detroit in terms of trade for the US

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Detroit is the gateway from Canada. 1/3 of Canadas land trade uses the Ambassador Bridge

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3 similarities between Downtown, Midtown and New Centre

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  • All census response went down suggesting Detroit is declining
  • High % of Black Americans
  • More than half the population have internet access
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2 differences between Downtown, Midtown and New centre

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  • Downtown more people houses than people
  • Midtown has highest population
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What does census data show about Detroit?

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Shows there are inequalities, higher or lower rates of poverty linked to internet usage, there is more houses than people in Downtown. Detroit has a high ethnic diversity

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What lead to rapid development of Detroit in 19th and early 20th century?

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Industrialisation

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What caused the rapid decline of Detroit in late 20th century?

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deindustrialisation

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Why was Henry Ford so significant in the prosperity of Detroit?

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His model of industrial-capitalism

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How did men and women experience the growth of capitalism differently?

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Men working in factories and women staying at home

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What happened in the 1930s?

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The great depression

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How did WW2 benefit Detroit?

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car factories rebooted to use for war machines, tanks and resources

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What happened to industry in Detroit in the 1970s and 1980s?

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Manufactures faced abroad competition so they moved production to cheaper places

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What word describes the movement of production by TNC’s abroad?

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Offshoring

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What happened in 2008/9?

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Financial crisis

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What happened in 2013?

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Bankruptcy

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Exogenous factors that have impacted Detroit since 1900

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  • globalisation of industry
  • WW2 used factories
  • Great depression
  • Government funding to regenerate the city
17
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Why has there been a rise of people moving to Midtown and New centre? and how does rest of Detroit compare?

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Due to denitrification
opposite to the rest of Detroit

18
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What happened in Midtown and New centre for the first time in 2015 since 1950s?

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The amount of white residents grew by around 8,000

19
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Endogenous factors Detroit has experienced?

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Henry Ford, topography, birth rate grew after industrialisation

20
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How much did the population decrease by in 52 years?

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0.8 million

21
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What problem occurred with housing in Detroit?

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Foreclosures occurred a lot as people couldn’t afford their mortgage

22
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What group of people experienced more foreclosures?

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Black people

23
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What is Blight?

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cycle of decline are becomes rundown so nobody wants to live there

24
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What is the Blight removal task force?

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Put in place in 2013 and demolished Blighted properties

25
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What is black/white flight?

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people leaving as thy don’t feel welcome due to race

26
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What happened in 2014?

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  • Detroit spent $50,000,000 to demolish 20 neighbourhoods (mostly black)
  • water was shut off to 33,600 people as couldn’t pay
27
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What occurred in the 1960’s?

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Race riots

28
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What is the house price range like and in which areas?

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range from 1,250 - 6.4 million
Rich mostly in white areas

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what affects did white flight have on Detroit?

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  • often business was owned by white people so funding became limited
  • schools closed down as pupils moved to suburbs so children remaining became illiterate (low census response)
  • Black people left without jobs as businesses closed

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