Chapter 6-2, essay prompt and terms.

This is the Essay Question associeated with Chapter 6-2 (just do the terms).

WW1 Brought many Changes at Home, including Unprecedented Governmental Control of the Economy and of News and Information. Discuss the extent of the Sacrifices that were required of Americans at Home. Discuss the changes in American Life caused by the war. Explain the steps the government took to finance the war, manage the economy, and boost Americanism. (Talk about propaganda and raising money and recruiting troops). Be sure to include how the lives at Home changed during the war. How did the Government try to keep Americans happy – or did they? Did some people feel during this time that civil liberties were suppressed?

Getting more soldiers
1- volunteers
2- draft
3- women

A total War
4- organizaing industry
5- War industries board
6- food adminsitration and victory gardens
7 - conserve fuel, daylight savings
8 - raise money with liberty bonds

The Workplace
9-national war labor board, wages, hours but no strikes
10 - women in workforce
11 - Great migration
12 - Mexicans move north

Raising morale and regulating minds
13 - Committee on Public information new government agency attempting to 'sell' idea of war. patriotic speeches are given
14 - espionage act and sedition act
15- germans and anyone who was seen as not patriotic attacked.
16 - schenk vs. US.