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| What is the gathering of resources and the prearation of war? |
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| In April1918 what did the government create to ensure protection of vital war materials? |
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| What organization granted workers an eight hour working day, extra pay for overtime, equal pay for women, and the right to form unions if the workers promised not to go in strike again? |
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| When the men went off to WWI and the US needed to expand its industies who took their jobs? |
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| What two ethnic backrounds worked in many industries taking the mens jobs? |
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| African Americans and Mexicans |
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| How much money did WWI cost the US? |
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| Two thirds of the money for the war was from what? |
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| What is another way the US got the money for WWI? |
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| Who did President Wilson appoint to help organize food for war refugees in Europe to head a new food Food Administration? |
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| What did Hubert Hoover head? |
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| What agency launched a campaign to encourage American farmers to produce more and to pursuade the public to eat less? For example, "Wheatless Mondays", "Meatless Tuesdays", "Porkless Thursdays", "Serve Just Enough", and "Use All Leftovers". They also supp |
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| What is a limitation of use? |
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| What government agency supervised the nation's industrial production? |
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| What board's responsibilities included converting factories to the production of war-related goods and setting prices for key consumer products? |
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| Who did President Wilson appoint to head the Comittee on the Public information? |
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| What committee was to persuade Americans that the war represented a battle for democract and freedom? |
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| Committee on Public Information |
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| What distributed millions of pro-war pamphlets, posters, articles, and books?It provided newspapers with government accounts of the war and advertisements. It arranged short 4minute speeches to be presented before plays and movies. The committee hired spe |
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| Commitee on Public Information |
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| Did WWI decrease American economy? |
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| How many African Americans between 1914 - 1920 fled to the Northern cities to seek jobs? |
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| What was the tremendous population movement called? |
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| Was their racial prejudice in the North? |
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| Where was the worse race riot in the US during WWI? A white mob attacked an African American neighborhood, burnin houses and firing on residents as they tried to escape. 40,000 African Americans died. It was in July 1917. |
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| Who opposed the war because they thought it would only help rich business owners hurt working people? |
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| Who did some German Americans and Irish people sympathize? |
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| Who were people opposed to the use of violence? |
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| What did congress pass in 1917 that gave the government a new weapon to combat dissent to the war? It provided stiff penalties for spying. |
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| What is spying also called? |
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| What laws made it a crime to say, print, or write almost anything percieved as negative about the government? |
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| Sabotage Act and The Sedition Act |
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| What is secret action to damage the war effort? |
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| Were Americans suspicious of German Americans? |
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| What were people who didn't believe in the war called? |
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