2. Did World War strengthen Democracy on the Homefront?

3. U. S. Food Administration

6. National War Garden Commission

7. U. S. School Garden Army

8. U. S. Shipping Board

9. U. S. Fuel Administration

11. YWCA – The Blue Triangle

12. Munitions Work

13. The Girls They Left Behind Do Their Bit!

14. Women Used In Recruitment Hello, Big Boy!

15. Even Grandma Buys Liberty Bonds

16. The Red Cross - Greatest Mother in the World

17. The Red Cross Nurse

18. National League for Woman’s Service

19. True Sons of Freedom

20. For “Colored” Men in Service

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

22. “Rescuing a Negro During the Race Riots in Chicago”, 1919

23. The “Flag of Liberty” Represents All of Us!

24. We are ALL Americans!

25. United War Work Campaign

26. American Committee for Relief in the Near East

27. Creel Commission Film

28. The “Mad Brute”

29. Beat Back the “Hun”

30. The “Menace of the Seas”

32. Government Excess & Threats to the Civil Liberties of Americans Espionage Act 1. Espionage Act – 1917 - forbade actions that obstructed recruitment or efforts to promote insubordination in military. - ordered Postmaster General to remove Leftist materials from mail. - fines of up to $10,000 and/or 20 years in prison.

33. Government Excess & Threats to the Civil Liberties of Americans Sedition Act 2. Sedition Act – 1918 - it was a crime to speak against purchase of war bonds or willfully utter, print, write or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about this form of US Gov’t., the US Constitution, or the US armed forces or to willfully urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment of (war) production of things necessary or essential to the prosecution of the war…with intent of such curtailment to cripple or hinder, the US in the prosecution of the war.

34. Government Excess & Threats to the Civil Liberties of Americans Schenck v. US 3. Schenck v. US – 1919 - in ordinary times the mailing of the leaflets would have been protected by the 1 st Amendment. - BUT, every act of speech must be judged acc. to the circumstances in which it was spoken. -The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. [Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes] - If an act of speech posed a clear and present danger, then Congress had the power to restrain such speech.

35. Government Excess & Threats to the Civil Liberties of Americans Abrams v. US 4. Abrams v. US – 1919 - majority ruling --> cited Holmes’ “Clear and present danger” doctrine. - Holmes & Brandeis dissented: The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, denying that a “silly leaflet” published by an “unknown man” constituted such a danger.