1. GUIDED NOTES on
WWI
US Homefront

2. Ration (limit) amt of food/fuel per person
Economic Impact
War Industries Board Oversaw production in factories/on farms (weapons, food, uniforms)
Production inc 20%
Unemployment disappears
Ration (limit) amt of food/fuel per person
a. Prohibition: 18th Amendment: alcohol made illegal because grain needed to feed soldiers

3. Racial tensions prevail
Social Impact
New Job opportunities
Great Migration - 500,000 African Americans move North
13,000 women join the Navy
Racial tensions prevail
Army remains segregated

4. African-Americans on a Troop Ship Headed for France

5. General John J. Pershing
“We must not eat with them, must not shake hands with them, seek to talk to them or to meet with them outside the requirements of military service. We must not commend too highly these troops, especially in front of white Americans”

6. Racial tensions prevail
Social Impact
New Job opportunities
Great Migration - 500,000 African Americans move North
13,000 women join the Navy
Racial tensions prevail
Army remains segregated
Red Summer - violent race riots in 26 cities
i. End of war  job competition

8. Ghastly Deeds of Race Rioters Told: The Chicago Defender Reports the Chicago Race Riot, 1919
“An unidentified man, young woman and a 3 month old baby were found dead on the street at the intersection of 47th street and Wentworth avenue. She had attempted to board a car there when the mob seized her, beat her, slashed her body into ribbons and beat the Baby’s brains out against a telegraph pole. Not satisfied with this, one rioter severed her breasts and a white youngster bore it aloft on pole, triumphantly, while the crowd hooted gleefully. All the time this was happening, several policemen were in the crowd, but did not make any attempt to make rescue until too late.”

11. Political Impact
Sedition Act: illegal to say anything negative about the gov, constitution, army, or navy
Espionage Act: illegal to interfere with Selective Service Act (draft) or mail “Leftist” material
Eugene V Debs = founder of Industrial Workers of the World (socialist labor union) – arrested for anti-war speech

12. Eugene V. Debs
“To hell with war, to hell with all who crave it. When masters rule the world no more, we’ll needs no wars to save it.”

13. Eugene V. Debs
Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most – that is, those who work the hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial task, have the least

14. 3. 19th Amendment = women’s suffrage
Political Impact
3. 19th Amendment = women’s suffrage
Carrie Chapman Catt = President of National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Alice Paul = President of National Women’s Party (NWP)