Day 68 War at Home

• Music: Stars and Stripes Forever

• Homework: 388-403

Power to Wilson

• Bernard Baush leads the War Industries Board (WIB)

• War Production increased 20%

• “Work or Fight”• Food Admin. • Rationing through

personal morality• Victory Garden

Selling War

• Taxes (Income, war profit, tobacco, alcohol)

• Victory Bonds• Propaganda• George Creel head of

Committee on Public Information- first official propaganda machine

Civil Liberties

• Anti Immigrant• Espionage and

Sedition Act• 20 years for sedition• Target socialist and

labor unions

Social Change

• Dubois vs. William Monroe Trotter

• “Great Migration”- to the north looking for high wage work

• Mexican immigration grows. Agriculture work.

• Women and work• Flu Epidemic of 1918 (30

Million Die- 50,000 American)

Summary Questions

1) What was the nations main wartime regulatory body?

2) Who reorganized the War Industries board in 1918?

3) Who was the muckraker who led the Committee on Public Relations?

4) Under what act could someone be prosecuted for interfering with the war effort?

5) Where did African Americans go on the great migration?