Life on the Homefront

Congress passed new taxes, us liberty bonds, and victory bonds to

• raise money for the war effort

• make the government bigger

• locate new recruits for the war

• locate immigrants who hadn't yet registered for the draft

The government borrowed money from the people to pay back later

• Liberty Bonds

• Interest loan

• taxation

• tariffs

Almost half of Americans bought war bonds, this revenue brought in about ____________________ of the needed money for the war effort.

• 1/4

• 1/3

• all

• 2/3

A law passed by Congress in 1917 to get enough men together to build an army

• Selective Service Act

• Espionage Act

• Sedition Act

• Prohibition

In the beginning, men ages 21-30 were drafted, but later the ages were extended to

• 19-30

• 21-40

• 18-45

• 15-65

By the end of WWI, 24 million Americans had signed up for the draft and over ___________________ million served in the war.

• 1

• 2

• 3.5

• 4.7

A group of government employees hired to tell factories what war goods to manufacture

• War Industry Board

• Industry Governors

• War Producers of America

• Committee on Public Information

Filled newspapers and magazines with stories about the good side of the war, hired famous people to promote the war, had songs produced to promote the war, sent speakers into schools and churches

• Committee on Public Information

• War Industry Board

• Selective Service

• National Labor Board

How did problems between manufacturers and workers get settled during the war?

• strikers were sent to jail without question

• the National War Labor Board was created to settle disputes

• men and women workers were replaced by children workers

Because so many men went away to war, they were replaced in the workforce by

• older citizens

• younger citizens

• nobody

• women and minorities