Worksheets9-2 The Home Front
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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
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, pharmacists, photographers, and nurses.
To raise money to pay for the war, the government began selling
Comic books and board games
Radios and televisions
Shares in common stock
Victory Bonds and Liberty Bonds
By buying Liberty Bonds, Americans were
loaning the government money that would be repaid with interest in a specified number of years
forcing government to set aside future shares in construction of ships, planes, tanks, and weapons for safekeeping
sacrificing the ability to stay out of debt in order to win the war
able to justify the extravagant meals and comfortable clothes our soldiers were promised when they went to France.
information, especially of a biased or misleading nature
Fake news
Alternative facts
Fox television
Propaganda
The nation's first formal government propaganda agency
Campaign to Promote Public Awareness
Selective Services Agency
Committee on Public Information
Posters, Banners, and Flyers Board
What was the Sedition Act in May 1918
An act, signed by Congress to allow free speech
Permits spying and fraudulent use of government entitlements
Made it illegal to speak against the war publicly
Withheld the ability to profit from making wartime supplies
This future US president would be in charge of the Food Administration and rationing during the Great War
Hebert Hoover
Ronald Reagan
Dwight Eisenhower
Franklin Roosevelt
During WWI, a lot of African Americans moved from where?
rural South to the rural North
rural North to the rural South
urban South to the urban North
rural South to the urban North
