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- The main targets of these attacks were americans who had emigrated for other nations, especially from austria-hungary and germany.

-The worst attacks where directly against the nearly 2 million americans that were born in germany.

-Many americans who had german names lost their jobs.

-Anything in America that had relation to Germany was changed and made to a new American style.

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-Bernard Baruch was a prosperous businessman.
-The war industires board was established in 1917 and was reorganized in 1918 under the leadership of Bernard Baruch.
- The board encouraged companies to use mass-production techniques to increase efficiency.
-It also urged them to eliminate waste
-Under the WIB, industrial production in the United states increased by about 20 percent.
-Many people adopted "Gasless Sundays" and "Lightless Nights" to conserve fuel.

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- This great population shift had already begun before the War in the late 19th Century.

- African Americans  moved northward to escape the Jim Crow South. Especially after turn of the 19th Century.

Factors that caused an increase in black migration were:
- Racial discrimination
- Boll Weevil infestation (ruined South's cotton fields_
- Job opportunities in North

- There was still racial injustice in the North. The Migration intensified racial tensions.

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-In the fall of 1918, the United States suffered a homefront crisis when an international flu epidemic affected about one-quarter of the U.S. population.

-The epidemic killed about 500,000 Americans before it disappeared in 1919. Historians believe that the influenza virus killed as many as 30 million people worldwide.

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- The us spent $35.5 billion on war efforts they had to use taxes to help get the money back

- they use taxes like the progressive income tax and taxes on tobacco, liquor, and other things to help with the war efforts.

- They also used bonds like the liberty loan and the victory loan

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The black public opinion about war was divided on one side where the W.E.B Du Bois they believed that blacks should support the war effort on the other side on the black opinion was William Monroe Trotter Founder of Boston Guardian they believed the victims of racism should not support a racist government

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- Wages in most industries rose in war year
- hourly wages for blue collar workers in metal trades, shipbuilding, and meatpacking rose my 20%
- household income was largely undercut
- stockholders in large corporations saw enormous profits
- president Wilson established that national war labor board in 1918
- NWLB worked to improve factory conditions

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- 1917 congress passed the Espionage & Sedition Act
- a person could be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to 20 years in jail for interfering w/ the war effort or saying anything disloyal about the war
- violated the spirit of the 1st amendment
- newspapers and magazines that opposed the war or criticized any of the Allies lost the mailing privileges
- The house of reps. refused to seat Victor Berger, because of his antiwar views
- The Espionage & Sedition Acts targeted socialists and labor leaders
- The anarchist Emma Goldman received a 2 year prison sentence and a $10,000 fine for organizing the No Conscription League.

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~To help produce and conserve food Wilson set up Food Administration
~Instead if rationing he told people to follow the "gospel of the clean plate," 1 day of no meat, 1 day no sweets, 2 days no wheat, 2 days of no pork
~Restaurants removed sugar bowls and only served bread after the first course
~Home owners planted victory gardens
~Children planted tomatoes and cucumbers in public parks
~As a result American food shipment to the Allies tripled
~The government set high prices on wheat
~Due to inflation farmers put an extra 40 million acres of land into production, increased income by 30%

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~To popularize the way the war, government set up the Nation's first propaganda agency
~George Creel recruited 75,000 men to serve as minute men
~ 25 million copie of "How the War Came to America" which included Wilson's war message (in english and other languages)
~Creel's propaganda campaign inflamed hatred and violations of the civil liberties of certain ethnic groups and opponents of the war