WW1 -The War on the Homefront

What government agency was formed to rally public support for the entry of the U.S. into the Great War?

• COMMITTEE ON PROPAGANDA

• DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION

• COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION

• DEPARTMENT OF WAR

What laws were passed that made it illegal to take actions against the U.S. government.

• ESPIONAGE AND TRAITOR ACT

• ESPIONAGE AND SEDITION ACT

• SELF DEFENSE ACT

• ALIEN AND SEDITION ACT

In order to increase the size of the U.S. army, what act was passed which required men between certain ages to register with the government with the possibility of being drafted.

• ARMY ENLISTMENT ACT

• SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT

• DRAFT DECLARATION

• DEFENSE ACT

In order to raise funds to pay for the war, what did the government sell to U.S. citizens?

• LIBERTY BONDS

• VICTORY BONDS

• DEFENSE BONDS

• PATRIOTISM BONDS

What government agency was formed to regulate which businesses manufactured needed supplies for the war effort?

• WAR INDUSTRIES BOARD

• NATIONAL WAR LABOR BOARD

• WAR LABOR BOARD

• MANUFACTURING BOARD

What government agency was formed to regulate which businesses manufactured needed supplies for the war effort?

• FOOD ADMINISTRATION

• FARMERS BOARD

• GARDENING ADMINISTRATION

• FOOD BANK

What were everyday Americans asked to put in their own yards to help provide food for their own families?

• SIGNS ENCOURAGING RATIONING

• FREEDOM GARDENS

• BIRD FEEDERS

• VICTORY GARDENS

What government agency was formed to help prevent workers from going on strike and to settle labor disputes during the war?

• WAR INDUSTRIES BOARD

• FOOD ADMINISTRATION

• NATIONAL WAR LABOR BOARD

• COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION

When everyone in the country has a role to play to achieve victory and involves using all of the human, social, and economic resources a country has to offer it is called . . .

• IN IT TO WIN IT

• ABSOLUTE WARFARE

• THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM

• TOTAL WARFARE

The Great Migration that took place between 1915 and 1930 refers to

• workers who left the northeast for the south

• Native American Indians who left their reservations

• middle-class whites who left cities to settle in the suburbs

• African Americans who left the rural south for northern cities