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The American population rapidly expanded in the 19th century, both by domestic births and migration. In finally reached 100 million (1910s). Even before the turn of the 20th century, United States had built the world's largest economy, but in contrast to Europe refused to convert industrial power into military power. World War I was a short term exception. This isolationist orientation almost resulted in national disaster and the destruction of Western Civilization during World War II. The Spanish Flu Epidemic caused a short term blip population growth. Henry Ford's Model T had little impact on the 1900s decade, but Ford Motors expanded rapidly and soon there were millions of his Tin Lizxzies on the streets and roads. The economic imoact was massice and obvious. America was already the largest imdustrial nbation inthe wsorld. The autmbile indusytry would generate ecinomic growth that made Ameica a larger indstrial power than multiple Europeam nations. The cultural impact was also massive mot so obvious. One major impact was the move to the sunburbs. Not only the monoed class could afford a car, workers could. Amf becae of the mobility afforded by cars, people began moving out of citis into the sunburbs. The African-American population was until the 1910s a mostly rural southern population. The harsh treatment of African Americans in a escalated racial bigotry as well as limited economic opportunity set the Great Migration in motion. Another factor was the need for labor in the North because the flow of European migration was cut off by World War I (1910s). Eventually some 6 million African-Americans would move north. The Great Migration which converted African Americans to an important northern urban population. Some 6 million African-Americans migrated out of the South in what would be the largest domestic demographic shift in American history. World War I had major repercussions, but because America was involved for only a shirt time, they were limited.
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