10/14 - WWI Homefront

What was the purpose of the Selective Service Act?

• Fund the war effort

• Recruit women to work in war industries

• Quickly increase the size of the American military

• Recruit Mexico into World War I

What was the purpose of war bonds?

• Recruit soldiers into the military

• Recruit women into war-related industries

• Recruit women into the military

• Fund the war effort

In large part because of women's involvement in the war effort, what amendment was later passed to expand the political rights of women?

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

The movement of millions of African Americans from the deep south to northern cities to work in war industries became known as

• The Great Migration

• Manifest Destiny

• Urbanization

• imperialism

The Espionage and Sedition Acts were controversial because they

• forced women to work in war-related factories

• restricted civil liberties, like freedom of speech and press

• forced the deportation of all German-Americans

• built a wall on the US-Mexico border