World War I

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World War I

• Life on the Home Front

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• Vocabulary
• war bonds a low interest loan by civilians to
  the government, meant to be paid in a number of
  years
• propaganda an opinion expressed for the purpose
  of influencing the actions of others
• Espionage Act passed in 1917, this law set heavy
  fines and long prison terms for those who engaged
  in antiwar activities and for encouraging draft
  resisters
• Sedition Act a 1918 law that made it illegal to
  criticize the war it set heavy fines and long
  prison terms for those who engaged in antiwar
  activities
• Oliver Wendell Holmes a Supreme Court Justice
  who believed free speech could be limited during
  wartime
• Great Migration the movement of African
  Americans between 1910 and 1920 to northern
  cities from the South

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Used celebrities to sell war bonds
Mobilizing for War
Boy Scouts helped sell war bonds
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People rolled bandages, collected tin cans, paper
toothpaste tubes, and apricot pits. They knitted
socks, sweaters and sewed hospital gowns.
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Victory Gardens and wheatless, meatless, and
gasless days.
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George Creel Head of the Committee on Public
Information
Propaganda and the Committee on Public Information
Patriotic movie during this time
Four Minute Men volunteers to speak in public
places in support of the war effort.
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Recruiting Posters
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hamburger - liberty sandwich or Salisbury steak
sauerkraut - liberty cabbage
Intolerance Changed German names
German Shepard - police dogs
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Schenck v. United States
Espionage Act and Sedition Act
Eugene Debs - 10 years in jail for saying the war
was fought by poor people so wealthy business
owners could make money
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Great Migration
Many African Americans left the South to escape
bigotry, poverty, and racial violence.
Three most common destinations during the Great
Migration
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New Jobs For Women
They worked in steel mills, ammunition factories,
and on assembly lines. They also held jobs as
streetcar conductors and elevator operators
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1. What were three ways American families could
contribute to the war effort?
Three ways American families could contribute to
the war effort were by purchasing war bonds,
planting victory gardens, and sewing clothes for
soldiers
2. What was the purpose of the Espionage and
Sedition Act? What groups were most affected by
them?
The purpose of the Espionage and Sedition Acts
was to keep people from undermining the war
effort. The groups most affected by these laws
were the pacifists, socialists, and other war
critics.
3. What kind of job opportunities did the war
create for women and minorities?
The job opportunities the war created for women
and minorities were jobs in factories that made
war materials and in jobs previously held by men.