12.2 - The Home Front During WWI

Why did Herbert Hoover institute meatless Tuesdays during World War I?

• to protest the practices of the meat-packing industry

• to encourage Americans to boycott foreign influences

• to unite Americans under a common religious practice

• to conserve food so that more could be shipped to soldiers

Who were conscientious objectors?

• people who denounced all of the government’s policies

• pacifists who opposed the concept of war for many reasons

• patriots who condemned the actions of foreign political enemies

• people who rejected military service due to religious or moral beliefs

Which domestic reform did President Wilson consider to be “vital to winning the war”?

• passing the Sedition Act

• granting women’s suffrage

• initiating the Great Migration

• supporting conscientious objectors