9-2 The Home Front

Used to raise money to cover the costs of war

• Liberty Bonds and Victory Bonds

• 92nd and 93rd Infantry Divisions

• Sedition Act of 1918

• Great Migration

• War Industries Board

Created to coordinate the production of war materials

• Liberty Bonds and Victory Bonds

• 92nd and 93rd Infantry Divisions

• Sedition Act of 1918

• Great Migration

• War Industries Board

African American units that fought along the Western Front

• Liberty Bonds and Victory Bonds

• 92nd and 93rd Infantry Divisions

• Sedition Act of 1918

• Great Migration

• War Industries Board

Made any public expression of opposition to the war illegal

• Liberty Bonds and Victory Bonds

• 92nd and 93rd Infantry Divisions

• Sedition Act of 1918

• Great Migration

• War Industries Board

African Americans leaving the South to settle in Northern cities

• Liberty Bonds and Victory Bonds

• 92nd and 93rd Infantry Divisions

• Sedition Act of 1918

• Great Migration

• War Industries Board

Perhaps the most successful government agency during this time was the Food Administration, which was run by

• Bernard Baruch

• George Creel

• Herbert Hoover

• William Howard Taft

To conserve energy, the Fuel Administration shortened workweeks for factories that did not make war materials and introduced

• time zones

• daylight savings time

• flexible hours

• conscription

Wartime fears led to the mistreatment and persecution of

• Irish Americans

• African Americans

• Mexican Americans

• German Americans

Realizing a draft was necessary, Congress created a new system of conscription called

• selective service

• local draft boards

• lotteries

• selective volunteers

Early in 1917, what division of the military authorized the enlistment of women?

• Army

• Marines

• Air Force

• Navy