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World War I

• III. The Homefront
• A. Economic Mobilization
• 1. Financing the War
• Liberty Bonds
• Taxes

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World War I

• III. The Homefront
• A. Economic Mobilization
• 2. Organizing the Economy (war boards)
• a. War Industries Board
• Bernard Baruch
• b. Food Administration
• Herbert Hoover
• Volunteerism Conserve
• Victory Gardens, wheatless Wednesdays
  meatless Tuesdays
• c. Fuel Administration
• heatless Mondays gasless Sundays
• d. National War Labor Board
• William Howard Taft
• Resolve Labor disputes
• 8 hr. day, wages rise, union members increase
• Workers not strike employers not lockout
• Ludlow Massacre

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World War I

• III. The Homefront
• A. Economic Mobilization
• 3. Economic Social Results
• a. African Americans
• Great Migration
• Race Riots
• b. Women

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World War I

• III. The Homefront
• B. War Propaganda
• 1. Committee of Public Info./George Creel
• 2. Forms of Propaganda
• 3. Results

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World War I

• III. The Homefront
• C. Civil Liberties Repressing Dissent
• 1. Espionage Act (1917)
• 2. Sedition Act (1918)
• 3. patriotic organizations
• 4. 100 Percent Americanism

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Civil Liberty Cases

• The Espionage Act, passed in 1917, made it a
  crime to obstruct military recruitment and it
  authorized the Postmaster General to deny mailing
  privileges to any material he considered
  treasonous or harmful to the war effort.
• The Sedition Act, passed in 1918, made it illegal
  to utter, print, write or publish any disloyal,
  profane, scurrilous or abusive language about
  the government, the Constitution, the flag, the
  armed forces or even the uniform of the Army or
  Navy.
• Case 1 The American Revolution Movie (U.S. v.
  Spirit of 76)
• A Hollywood movie producer issued a film, The
  Spirit of 76, which portrayed some scenes in
  which British soldiers committed some
  atrocities.Claiming that the film questioned the
  faith of our ally, Great Britain, the prosecution
  argued that the war effort demanded total Allied
  support.
• Guilty or Not Guilty?
• Sentence/Fine
• Case 2 The Anti-Draft Circulars (Schenck v.
  U.S.)
• An American Socialist, feeling that American
  involvement in World War I was an attempt to
  bolster the capitalist system, mailed circulars
  to men eligible for the draft, stating that being
  conscripted against ones will was
  unconstitutional and should be resisted.The
  prosecution argued that this interfered with the
  governments right to raise an army in time of
  war.
• Guilty or Not Guilty?
• Sentence/Fine
• Case 3 The Leaflets Dropped From a Window
  (Abrams v. U.S.)
• Several men, concerned about Americas
  involvement in the unfolding Bolshevik Revolution
  in Russia, dropped some leaflets from a window to
  pedestrians below.The leaflets urged that
  American workers go on strike to protest
  Americas involvement in another nations civil
  war.The prosecution argued that while the
  leaflets made no statement about the U.S.s role
  in World War or its allies, a strike might hamper
  war production and thus their actions were
  illegal.
• Guilty or Not Guilty?
• Sentence/Fine
• Case 4 The Anti-Draft Speech (U.S. v. Debs)

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Civil Liberty Cases

• Case 1 The American Revolution Movie
• U.S. v. Spirit of 76 The producer was fined
  10,000 and given a 10-year prison sentence
  (later commuted to three years).
• Case 2 The Anti-Draft Circulars
• Schenck v. U.S. A 10-year sentence upheld by the
  Supreme Court, which established the clear and
  present danger doctrine for the boundaries of
  permissible speech.
• Case 3 The Leaflets Dropped From a Window
• Abrams v. U.S. A 20-year sentence upheld by the
  Supreme Court.Abrams was later released from
  prison on the condition that he emigrate to the
  Soviet Union.
• Case 4 The Anti-Draft Speech
• U.S. v. Debs 10-year sentence commuted by
  President Harding in 1921.
• This comes from Mr. Feldmeth http//www.polytech
  nic.org/faculty/gfeldmeth/USHistory.html