World War I part 2:
The Progressive War at Home Wartime increases in federal power War Revenue Act of 1917 tax burden on corp’s & wealthy War Industries Board (Bernard Baruch) set production levels and prices Fuel Administration regulated coal production and consumption March 1918: Daylight Savings Time Food Administration (Herbert Hoover) rationing of meat, flour, sugar, etc. public control of the railroads
The Progressive War at Home Advances for underprivileged citizens workers more jobs, better wages the National War Labor Board min. wage, 8-hour day, collective bargaining, proworker arbitration women entry into the workforce women’s suffrage, 1920 African-Americans the Great Migration military service & “the New Negro”
The Progressive War at Home Wartime repression the American Protective League 1917 Espionage Act and 1918 Sedition Act Eugene Debs “100% Americanism” intolerance of immigrant cultures antiunion, antisocialism, antipacifism German Americans
The Progressive War Abroad Wilson and world democracy January 1918: the 14 Points free trade – freedom of the seas and removal of trade barriers national self-determination arms reduction a league of nations
The Progressive War Abroad The Treaty of Versailles Wilson at Paris reparations? $120 billion national self- determination? mandates the League of Nations the treaty defeated Republicans: isolationism Wilson’s intransigence
The Death of Progressivism Impact of the war Division into pro- and antiwar factions Disillusionment CPI’s public-unity tactics failure of wartime reforms Wilson’s “new world order” Epilogue LaFollette and the Progressive Party Socialists small-scale reform within government materialism of the Jazz Age “His Best Customer” (1917)