The War at Home by Monica Wayman https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd World War I spurred social, political, and economic change in the United States. Such changes increased government powers and expanded economic opportunities. en-us 2019-02-26 13:38:52 UTC 2023-05-28 12:24:58 UTC hello@padlet.com African Americans and the War bayely5243 https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335343969 -opinions were divided about the war
-W.E.D. Du Bois believed that blacks should supported the war effort
-He once said "...Let us, while this war last, forget our special grievances and close our ranks shoulder to shoulder with with our own white fellow citizens and the allied nations that are fighting democracy" (W.E.B. Du Bois)
-He believed that African American support for the war would strengthen calls for racial justice
-William Monroe Trotter founder of the Boston Guardian,  believed that victims of racism should not support a racist gov.
-Trotter condemned Du Bois's accommodationist approach and favored protest instead despite the grievances over continued racial inequality in the U.S., most African Americans backed the war. 

Baylee and Alexis]]> 2019-02-26 13:45:57 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335343969 Great Migration: Natalie, Chloe, Gage, and Jonah https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335344585 Greatest effect of first world war on african American's lives was that it accelerated the great migration 
Large scale movement of hundreds of thousands of southern blacks to cities in the north
Many African Americans sought to escape racial discrimination in the south
Henry Ford opened his automobile assembly line to black workers in 1914
Because of WWI many job opportunities opened up for African Americans in steel mills, munitions plants, and stockyards

]]> 2019-02-26 13:47:05 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335344585 War Financing https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335344628 -$35.5 billion spent by the US on the war effort
-Taxes include progressive income tax, a war-profits tax, and a higher tax on luxury items.
-The rest of the money was raised by selling "liberty loans" and "victory loans"
-Celebrities spoke at rallies
-Secretary Williams G. McAdoo stated only "a friend of Germany" would refuse to buy war bonds
Blake, Katie, Jake, Dezeray]]> 2019-02-26 13:47:11 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335344628 Committee on Public Information. C. S, B.L, F.K https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335344826 -Established propaganda agency-CPI
-The head of the CPI was a former muckraking journalist named George Creel
-He persuaded artists and advertising agencies to popularize the war
-Recruited 75,000 "Four Minute Men" to make pro-war speeches
-Ordered 20 million copies of "How the War Came to America" to be printed in multiple languages
- Distributed 70 million pamphlets through the boy scouts]]> 2019-02-26 13:47:38 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335344826 Anti-Immigrant Hysteria https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335345322 *German immigrants were treated poorly.
*They lost their jobs.
*Sometimes they would get flogged or smeared with tar and feathers.
*German foods were given new names.
*Orchestras wouldn't play music by Germans.]]> 2019-02-26 13:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335345322 The Flu Epidemic https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335345391 -The United States suffered a home front crisis when a international Flu Epidemic affected about one quarter of the U.S. population in 1918.
-The effect of the epidemic on the economy was devastating. Mines shut down, telephone service was cut in half, the factories and offices staggered working hours to avoid contagion.
-The death toll waso high the city ran short of coffins, the corpses of poor people would have laid there for as long as a week.
-The mysterious illness seemed to strike the people in best heath.  death could come in a matter of days.
-Before the disappearance in 1919 it killed 500,000 americans and also historians believed that influenza virus killed as many as 30 million people world wide.
-World War 1 brought death and disease to millions but like the flu epidemic the war also came to a sudden end. 
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]]> 2019-02-26 13:48:41 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335345391 Women in the War https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335345489 -Women began obtaining jobs that we recently held exclusively by men
-Women continued to fill more traditional jobs such as nurses, clerks, and teachers
-Some like Jane Addams were active in the Peace Movement
-Many women worked as volunteers
-Jane Addams helped found the Women's Peace Party in 1915
-President Wilson acknowledged the women's effort to support the war, but he did not have equal pay for equal jobs
-Congress passed the 19th Amendment, granting them the right to vote in 1919
-In 1920 the amendment was ratified by the states

Jake, Katie, Blake, Dezeray]]> 2019-02-26 13:48:54 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335345489 Food Administration https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335345581
  • Set up by Wilson to help produce and conserve food under Herbert Hoover. 
  • Hoover called on people to follow the "gospel of the clean plate"
  • Hoover declared one day a week "meat less," another "sweetless," two days "wheatless," and two other days "porkless."
  • Homeowners planted "victory gardens"
  • Children spent their afternoons planting veggies in public parks
  • Hoover also set a high government price on wheat and other staples
    • Natalie, Chloe, Jonah, Gage 
    ]]>     2019-02-26 13:49:06 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335345581     Espionage and Sedition Acts https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335345840 In june 1917 Congress passed the espionage act and In may 1918 the sedition act was passed .

    These Meant a person could be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced up to 20 in Jail for interfering with the war effort. Also for saying anything disloyal, abusive or profane about the government or war Effort.

    They Targeted Socialists and labor leaders. Eugene V. Debs was handed a ten year prison sentence for speaking out against a war and the draft.
    ]]>     2019-02-26 13:49:35 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335345840     War Industries Board https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335346162 ~It was established in 1917 and recognized in 1918.
    ~ Bernard M. Baruch was the leader.
    ~ The board encouraged companies to use mass production techniques to increase technology
    ~ Under the WIB, industrial production in the united states increased by about 20 percent.
    -The WIB applied price controls only at the wholesale level.
    -The WIB was not a federal agency to regulate the economy during the war.
    - In March 1918, the fuel administration introduced another conservation measure: daylight saving time which had first been proposed by Benjamin Franklin in the 1770's as a way to take advantage of the longer days of summer.
    Michael, Radford, Micah, Elijah]]>     2019-02-26 13:50:15 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335346162     War Economy https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335347712 -salary prices went up and home held money was cut.
    -The DuPont company made $68 million a year
    -union climbed from $2.5 million to $4 million 
    -National War Labor Board was created in 1918
    -Board pushed for 8 hour workdays
    -The Board tried to improve factory conditions]]>     2019-02-26 13:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335347712     Espionage Acts Propoganda. https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335355173 2019-02-26 14:04:34 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335355173 https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335356272 Propoganda Espionage Acts.]]> 2019-02-26 14:06:16 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/a5jqxeq12erd/wish/335356272