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Quiz: “The War at Home”
Directions: If the statement is true, write “true” on the line. If it is false, change the underlined word or words to make it true.
Example: In the fall of 1918, the United States suffered a home-front economic crisis set off by a flu epidemic.__________True___________________________
Example: Soon after the war, the 19th Amendment was passed, recognizing the right of African Americans to vote. _____________women_______________
1. Under the National War Labor Board, the nation’s main wartime regulatory body, industrial production in the United States increased. ____________________________
2. Unions will form and become popular during this industrial expansion because workers wanted better working conditions, hours, and pay. __________________________________
3. President Franklin D. Roosevelt also created the Food Administration to help produce and conserve food. ________________________________
4. Liberty Stocks were a way in which the government raised money for the war effort. Liberty Stocks were when you gave your money to the government and then they gave you a note that said you’d get your money back, plus some interest, after so many years. ________________________________________
5. Propaganda is a form of biased communication designed to influence people’s thoughts and actions. _______________________________________
6. Blacks became the target of many hate crimes during the War period. They lost their jobs, their music was no longer played, their books were banned and so on. _____________________________________
7. The Espionage and Sedition Acts allowed the government to fine a person up to $10,000 or be sentenced to 20 years in prison for interfering in the war effort or saying anything disloyal about eh government or war effort. ______________________________________
8. Many social changes took place during WWI for blacks. Many Southern blacks moved to the Northern cities, this was called the Mass Movement. __________________________________________
Mobilizing The United States
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rimary Sources: American World War One Posters
In April 1917, Congress issued a declaration of war against the Central Powers – Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. Because this decision was not universally popular among the diverse population of the United States, the U.S. government established a propaganda agency, the Committee on Public Information, to convince the American people to unite behind the Allied cause. One tool used to gain public support for the war was the mass distribution of posters like these.
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