Rubber plantation introduction

Answer 1

The need for rubber to make tires from began to explode in the early twentieth century with the boom of automobiles. Rubber markets were controlled by the European rubber cartel. In 1925 Henry Ford acquired and developed millions of acres of Amazonian jungle in Brazil into a rubber tree plantation named Fordlandia. He also used this as his experiment to build a Utopian society and prove his theories. He built hospitals, schools, homes, recreation, cafeterias, and everything except Churches as he hated religion. One plantation failed and he moved to whole operation to another place and did it again. Little rubber was ever produced and in the end synthetic rubber was invented and natural rubber was not needed any longer so it all failed including his society experiments. The people of the amazon did not want to conform to what Henry Ford wanted.