Day 68 War at Home

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Day 68 War at Home

• Music Stars and Stripes Forever
• Homework 388-403

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Power to Wilson

• Bernard Baush leads the War Industries Board
  (WIB)
• War Production increased 20
• Work or Fight
• Food Admin.
• Rationing through personal morality
• Victory Garden

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Selling War

• Taxes (Income, war profit, tobacco, alcohol)
• Victory Bonds
• Propaganda
• George Creel head of Committee on Public
  Information- first official propaganda machine

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Civil Liberties

• Anti Immigrant
• Espionage and Sedition Act
• 20 years for sedition
• Target socialist and labor unions

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Social Change

• Dubois vs. William Monroe Trotter
• Great Migration- to the north looking for high
  wage work
• Mexican immigration grows. Agriculture work.
• Women and work
• Flu Epidemic of 1918 (30 Million Die- 50,000
  American)

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Summary Questions

• What was the nations main wartime regulatory
  body?
• Who reorganized the War Industries board in 1918?
• Who was the muckraker who led the Committee on
  Public Relations?
• Under what act could someone be prosecuted for
  interfering with the war effort?
• Where did African Americans go on the great
  migration?