WWI Homefront

During the Great Migration, ​ (a)   moved to ​ (b)   cities in order to improve their standard of living.

• African Americans
• northern
• Irish Immigrants
• western

Which results occurred on the home front because of U.S. involvement in WWI?

• Industrial production decreased as U.S. citizens bought fewer goods and services

• Companies hired women to work in jobs traditionally reserved for men

• Wages decreased as companies faced rising taxes and government restrictions

This World War I poster was intended to persuade -

• farmers to consume fewer scarce goods during the war

• women to work producing war materials

• people to save money during the war

• people to help finance the war

This law demonstrates that at one time the federal government was willing to -

• suspend habeus corpus

• confiscate privately owned weapons

• force people into interment camps

• suspend freedom of speech

Match the following terms and definitions

• Great Migration

•  financial tool used by the U.S. government to fund the military and support the war effort

• Espionage Act

• law that made it illegal to interfere with military operations or support enemies of the United States

• Selective Service Act

• movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North

• War Bonds

• law that established a conscription (draft) to recruit soldiers for the U.S. military

Categorize the following information

Groups:

(a) Reasons the U.S. entered WWI

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(b) Homefront efforts during WWI

• War Bonds were issued

• Sinking of the Lusitania

• Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

• Women joined the workforce

• The Selective Service Act was passed

• Zimmerman Telegram

The following image is an example of -

• Propaganda

• Isolationism

• Federalism

• Checks and Balances

During World War I, Factories across the country shifted their focus to manufacturing

• weapons and ammunitions

• modern clothing

• railroad tracks

• barbed wire

What was the primary purpose of the Selective Service Act of 1917 during World War I?

• To provide financial support to veterans

• To establish a system for drafting men into military service

• To regulate food production for the war effort

• To create a committee for war propaganda

Select the area many African Americans were moving to during the "Great Migration"