Encouraged companies to use mass production techniques and to standardize products

Set production quotas

Allocated raw materials

Increased industrial production by about 20 percent

Caused retail prices and corporate profits to soar

Controlled the nation’s railroads

Regulated coal supplies

Rationed gasoline and heating oil

Introduced daylight-savings

Fuel Administration

Resolved labor disputes

Pushed for improved working conditions

Encouraged Americans to reduce their consumption of food voluntarily

Tripled food shipments to the Allies

Set a high government price for wheat and other staples

Food Administration

Bonds that allowed the government to borrow money

Helped to raise 2/3 of the $3.35 billion to finance the war

Every adult American lent the U.S. $400.

Mobilized the nation’s artists and advertising people to popularize the war

Recruited 75,000 Four Minute Men to deliver pro-war speeches

Increased support for the war

The prosecution of 2,000 people and the convictions of more than 1,000

Loss of mailing privileges for publications that criticized the war

Firing of people opposed to the war

Imprisonment of Eugene Debs, Emma Goldman, and Bill Haywood

Many lost their jobs

Some were attacked or killed

The Great Migration involved the massive movement of African Americans from Southern rural areas to Northern cities. It caused problems for African Americans as they began to live in cities, but also improved their economic opportunities

African-American soldiers were allowed for the first time to serve under African-American officers

Many women moved into jobs traditionally held by men

Women’s wartime efforts led to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, which recognized their right to vote

He was able to use the War Industries Board to regulate the economy that allowed the U.S. military to get the supplies it needed.

He used the Committee on Public Information to gain support for the war at home. This led to people conserving supplies and donating time and money to the war effort.