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Chapter 11 Section 3
The War at Home (388)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was Harriet Stanton Blatch? | A women's suffragist who helped bring about change after WWI |
| What was the major political AND economical effect of WWI? | Congress handed over economical power to president Wilson. He could now regulate prices and certain war-related industries |
| What is the War Industries Board? | It encouraged companies to use mass production, be more efficient, and eliminate waste. |
| Who was the leader of the WIB? | Bernard M. Baruch, a successful businessman |
| What did the WIB accomplish? | They upped efficiency by 20%, but they also hiked up retail prices, as well as corporate profits |
| Why was daylight savings time invented? | So people would use less fuel for their lamps. |
| What effect did the war have on the economy? | Stocks boomed, wages went up( so did prices of housing and food), however people had to work more (to keep up with war needs) so unions boomed as well. The National War Labor Board helped work out Union issues fairly. |
| Wilson set up the Food Administration under Herbert Hoover. What did it do? | It helped produce and conserve food in small ways like restaurants not having sugar bowls, and declaring certain days meatless, porkless, wheatless, or sweetless. People would plant gardens and send extra veggies to the allies. |
| How did the US pay for the war? | Income tax, excise tax on tobacco and alcohol, bonds that "only a Germsn" wouldnt buy |
| What did the comittee of public information do? | Led by George Creel they published propaganda to the sell the war to the public, paid for speakers to tell people about the war, printed copies of books supporting the war etc. |
| What was the problem with mixing the war and conformity? | All ideas of tolerance were lost, everyone succumbed to the ruthless brutality of the war because "everyone else was doing it" |
| Whose civil liberties were most affected by WWI? | Emigrants from Germany and Austria-Hungary. They would be beaten sometimes. German wasn't tought at schools, Mozart and Beethoven were never played. People with German names lost their jobs. |
| What were the Espionage and Sedition Acts? | A person could be fined for saying something Anti-Allie. Many good people who opposed war lost their jobs or didn't receive jobs. Socialists like Big Bill Haywood, Eugene Debbs, and anarchists like Emma Goldman were sent to prison |
| Some African American's supported the war, others were against it because they didnt want to support their racist country. Which side were most of them on? | Most African Americans backed the war. |
| What was the Great Migration? | The movement of many southern blacks to Northern cities because of job loss and discrimination in the south. |
| Women broadened their range of work during and after the war. What did Jane Addams do? | She worked for women's peace party, a group of women pacifists |
| What important Women's Rights event occured in 1919? | The 19th Amendment was passed, granting women the right to vote. |
| What crippled the economy in 1918 by keeping people out of work? | The influenza virus, it killed about 30 million people worldwide. |
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