WWI on the Homefront

Reasons African Americans migrated from the South to the North

Groups:

(a) Push Factor

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(b) Pull Factors

• KKK hatred

• Racial violence

• Economic Opportunity

• Racial equality

What is the Great Migration?

• The Great Migration was a large movement of soldiers from the north to the south during the war.

• The Great Migration was the name of the time period after WWI.
• The Great Migration is the mass movement of African Americans from the south in the early 1900s.
• The Great Migration was the name of time period after the Civil War.

Who had to take full blame for WWI in the Treaty of Versailles?

• Britain
• Ottoman Empire
• Germany
• Russia

Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.

• Law passed by Congress in 1917 that required all men from ages 21 to 30 to register for the military draft

• American citizens were lending money to the government to pay for the war.

• British passenger liner sunk in 1915 that helped sway American opinion of the war.

This impacted all Americans and required that they modify their diets to increase ships of goods to soldiers

• Food and Drug Administration

• Propaganda

• Rationing

• Bonds

What Treaty Ended WWI?

• Treaty of Versailles
• Treaty of Paris
• Olive Branch Petition
• League of Nations

Which minority groups would support the U.S. economy during World War One?

• Chinese- Americans and Irish- Americans
• Senior Citizens and African- Americans
• African- Americans and Women
• African- Americans and Irish Americans

The Selective Service Act was passed to:

• encourage conservation of select resources
• establish a formal quota system on immigrants
• increase troop numbers through a lottery system draft
• encourage home front support 

What are the name of the acts that made it illegal to criticize the U.S. involvement in the war or encourage draft resisters

• Espionage and Sedition Acts
• Treaty of Versailles and the Fourteen Points
• the Yalta Agreement and the Treaty of Versailles
• The Espionage Act and the Fourteen Points

Common roles performed by women during WWI

• Aircraft delivery pilots. First time women flew military planes.

• Butchers, Bakers, and Candlestick makers.

• Dentists, Doctors, and animal keepers.

• Clerks, munitionettes, stenographers, and nurses.