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The War at Home
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Concern Over Patriotism
• Americans trying to eliminate internal enemies
• Resulted in attacks on immigrants
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Economy Changed People’s Lives
• People moved to find jobs
• Women took “men’s” jobs
• The President now had control of the economy
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War Industries Board
• Encouraged mass production to increase efficiency
• Eliminate waste• Set product quotas• Allocated raw
materials• Increased U.S.
production by 20%
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War Industries board
• Led by Bernard M. Baruch
• Changed women’s clothing-Took steel from women’s corsets(80,000 tons)
• No more leather shoes
• Shorter skirts
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War Industries Board
• Encouraged conservation
• Gasless Sundays• Lightless nights• Daylight-savings time
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War Economy
• Some wages increased
May have risen by as much as 20%
• Some wages decreased
May have lost 35% of earning power
Union membership increased
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War Economy
• 6,000 strikes broke out to protest high prices and low wages
• Wilson creates National War Labor Board to deal with labor disputes
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War Economy
• “Work or Fight”• NWLB pushed for 8
hour days • safety inspections• Pushed to observe
ban on child labor
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War Economy
• Food Administration-conserve Food
• Led by Herbert Hoover
• “meatless” and “sweetless” days
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War Economy
• People planted “Victory Gardens”
• American food shipments to Allies tripled
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Selling the War
• U.S. spent $33 billion on war
• Raised 1/3 of this amount through taxes
• Government sold bonds
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Committee on Public Information
• Government’s 1st propaganda agency
• Was to popularize war
• Led by George Creel-a muckraking journalist
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Drive for Conformity
• Targeted immigrants• Americans w/
German sounding names lost job
• Towns w/ German names changed names
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Espionage and Sedition Acts
• Fined $10,000 and imprisoned for 20 yrs for interfering with draft
• Obstructing sale of liberty bonds
• Saying anything disloyal about war effort
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Espionage and Sedition Acts
• Clear violation of 1st Amendment
• Led to 6,000 arrests• 1,500 convictions
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African American Support
• W.E.B. Dubois• Cooperation would
cause leadership to listen to calls for racial justice
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African American Opposition
• William Monroe Trotter- victims of racism should not support a racist government
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The Great Migration
• Thousands of southern blacks moved to cities in the north
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Why the Migration?
• 1. Escape racial discrimination in the South
• 2. Drought in the South ruined many cotton fields
• 3. Increased job opportunities
• 4. Rumors of prosperous northern African Americans
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Women in the War
• Filled roles formerly held by men
• Driving cabs• Delivery trucks• Railroad workers• Cooks• Dockworkers• Bricklayers• Coal miners• Ship building
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Female Opposition
Jane Adams founded Women’s Peace Party
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Flu Epidemic
• Fall of 1918• 25% of Americans
became ill
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Flu Epidemic
• Corpses lay unburied for days
• 500,000 Americans killed
• 40 million world wide• Flu disappeared in
1919