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9-2 The Home Front

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Used to raise money to cover the costs of war

a)

Liberty Bonds and Victory Bonds

b)

92nd and 93rd Infantry Divisions

c)

Sedition Act of 1918

d)

Great Migration

e)

War Industries Board

2.

Created to coordinate the production of war materials

a)

Liberty Bonds and Victory Bonds

b)

92nd and 93rd Infantry Divisions

c)

Sedition Act of 1918

d)

Great Migration

e)

War Industries Board

3.

African American units that fought along the Western Front

a)

Liberty Bonds and Victory Bonds

b)

92nd and 93rd Infantry Divisions

c)

Sedition Act of 1918

d)

Great Migration

e)

War Industries Board

4.

Made any public expression of opposition to the war illegal

a)

Liberty Bonds and Victory Bonds

b)

92nd and 93rd Infantry Divisions

c)

Sedition Act of 1918

d)

Great Migration

e)

War Industries Board

5.

African Americans leaving the South to settle in Northern cities

a)

Liberty Bonds and Victory Bonds

b)

92nd and 93rd Infantry Divisions

c)

Sedition Act of 1918

d)

Great Migration

e)

War Industries Board

6.

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

a)

Bernard Baruch

b)

George Creel

c)

Herbert Hoover

d)

William Howard Taft

7.

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

a)

time zones

b)

daylight savings time

c)

flexible hours

d)

conscription

8.

Wartime fears led to the mistreatment and persecution of

a)

Irish Americans

b)

African Americans

c)

Mexican Americans

d)

German Americans

9.

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

a)

selective service

b)

local draft boards

c)

lotteries

d)

selective volunteers

10.

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

a)

Army

b)

Marines

c)

Air Force

d)

Navy

11.

Common roles performed by women during WWI

a)

Aircraft delivery pilots. First time women flew military planes.

b)

Butchers, Bakers, and Candlestick makers.

c)

Dentists, Doctors, and animal keepers.

d)

Clerks, pharmacists, photographers, and nurses.

12.

To raise money to pay for the war, the government began selling

a)

Comic books and board games

b)

Radios and televisions

c)

Shares in common stock

d)

Victory Bonds and Liberty Bonds

13.

By buying Liberty Bonds, Americans were

a)

loaning the government money that would be repaid with interest in a specified number of years

b)

forcing government to set aside future shares in construction of ships, planes, tanks, and weapons for safekeeping

c)

sacrificing the ability to stay out of debt in order to win the war

d)

able to justify the extravagant meals and comfortable clothes our soldiers were promised when they went to France.

14.
The Selective Service Act was passed to:
a)
encourage conservation of select resources
b)
establish a formal quota system on immigrants
c)
increase troop numbers through a lottery system draft
d)
encourage home front support 
15.
In victory gardens, people grew food to
a)
eat at home
b)
can in the factories
c)
feed the farm animals
d)
send to the soliders
16.

information, especially of a biased or misleading nature

a)

Fake news

b)

Alternative facts

c)

Fox television

d)

Propaganda

17.

The nation's first formal government propaganda agency

a)

Campaign to Promote Public Awareness

b)

Selective Services Agency

c)

Committee on Public Information

d)

Posters, Banners, and Flyers Board

18.

What was the Sedition Act in May 1918

a)

An act, signed by Congress to allow free speech

b)

Permits spying and fraudulent use of government entitlements

c)

Made it illegal to speak against the war publicly

d)

Withheld the ability to profit from making wartime supplies

19.

This future US president would be in charge of the Food Administration and rationing during the Great War

a)

Hebert Hoover

b)

Ronald Reagan

c)

Dwight Eisenhower

d)

Franklin Roosevelt

20.

During WWI, a lot of African Americans moved from where?

a)

rural South to the rural North

b)

rural North to the rural South

c)

urban South to the urban North

d)

rural South to the urban North