WWI Era : Home Front(What happens at home?)

Economics :Financing The War with Liberty Bonds• U.S. economy not prepared for a war

• Government borrowed money from US

citizens by issued Liberty Bonds

• Bonds - Redeemed in the future for face value

plus interest (what are bonds you ask?)

• Bond Advertisements raised $20 billion

• Boy & Girl scouts advertised

• Artists drew posters

• Actors & actresses - advertised

Economics: Managing the Private Economy

Gov’t managed industry by Agencies Agencies worked to increase war related output &

establish price controls

Created daylight savings

Distributed raw materials

Set standard wages, hours, conditions

Gov’t Rations for citizens Lever Food & Fuel Control Act - 1917

Rationing was implemented for food & fuel

Instituted gasless days

Enforcing Loyalty

• Government Censorship• Censorship of the press & banning certain

publications

• Use of Propaganda• Committee of Public Information created in order to

rally war support

• Public fear of foreigners & terrorism led to restrictions on immigration

• General hostility towards Germans:• German composers and musicians banned

from playing• Hamburger renamed the Liberty Sandwich• Some Germans were assaulted and lynched

Repressing Civil Liberties

• Espionage Act - 1917

• Illegal to interfere with the draft

• Sedition Act – 1918

• Illegal to obstruct the sale of Liberty

Bonds

• Illegal to say anything disloyal, profane

or abusive about gov’t, constitution &

military

• Repression of

• Freedoms of Speech, criticism, dissent

Social ChangesRestrictions on immigration & the draft depletes the labor pool...

• Great Migration starts - 500K African Americans moved from S. states to N. factories

• Opportunities for women

•400K women joined the workforce

Social Changes : The Great Migration• Northbound movement of nearly six million African Americans

between 1915 and 1970

http://vellastrations.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/what-is-the-great-migration/

Social Changes

• Prohibition was passed in 1917

• Outlawed the manufacturing, sale, transportation & consumption of alcohol in the United States

• Alcohol required wheat and grain, which was needed to support the war effort.

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