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World War I part 2: 1917-1919
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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
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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”
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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