WWI on the Home Front

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WWI on the Home Front

• Words to Know

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1) Espionage Sedition Acts

• -Punished spies and Americans suspected of
• being disloyal to the U.S.A.

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2) Food Administration

• - Increased production and limited the use of
  scarce foods.

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3) Liberty Bonds

• -Issued by the Federal Government to help
• pay for the war effort.

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4) Pacifists

• -Outspoken citizens opposed to all war
• and physical conflict.

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5) War Industries Board

• -Made plans for the production of arms and
• other war materials.

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6) National War Labor Board

• -Prevented strikes in important industries
• needed for execution of war.

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7) War Shipping Board

• -Sent American troops and equipment to Europe
  during WWI.

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I. Organizing U.S. For War

• 1. President Wilson increased his
• authority.
• a. Set up agencies
• -War Industries Board
• -War Shipping Board
• -Food Administration
• -Meatless Mondays
• -Wheatless Wednesdays
• -Lightless Nights
• -Daylight Savings-time change

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II. Women African Americans Gain Jobs

• 1. Working white men _at_ war
• a. Northern factory work
• -unfair wages for blacks women
• -increased racial segregation
• -influenced labor unions to
• protect black and female workers

www.mtsu.edu/.../history/women/wh-exh-wwi.html
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III. Paying for the War

• 1. Increased taxes
• a. R.R. tickets
• b. Phone calls
• c. Music records, etc
• 2. Borrow
• a. War Bonds Stamps

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IV. Awakening Public Opinion

• 1. Results of vivid press coverage
• a. People against war
• -Socialists
• -Pacifists
• b. People in favor of war
• -Committee on Public Info
• (CPI)
• -pass Espionage Acts
• -advertise with propaganda