The Home Front
This 1917 act restricted freedom of speech by criminalizing interference with the draft.
What was the Espionage Act?
This U.S. President kept America neutral for almost three years during World War I.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
This woman became the first female member of Congress in 1917.
Who was Jeannette Rankin?
This 1917 act established the military draft in the United States.
What was the Selective Service Act?
This 1919 amendment started Prohibition in the United States.
What was the Eighteenth Amendment?
This was President Wilson’s plan for postwar peace and a new international organization.
What were the Fourteen Points and the League of Nations?
This 1918 act made it illegal to criticize the government, flag, or Constitution during WWI.
What was the Sedition Act?
This British passenger ship was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915, killing 128 Americans.
What was the Lusitania?
This organization, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, supported the war and helped win women the right to vote.
What was the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)?
This government agency, led by George Creel, promoted patriotism and support for the war.
What was the Committee of Public Information (CPI)?
This car manufacturer revolutionized mass production with the assembly line.
Who was Henry Ford?
This treaty ended WWI and imposed harsh penalties on Germany.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
This Supreme Court case upheld restrictions on free speech during wartime.
What was Schenck v. United States?
This 1917 secret message from Germany promised Mexico U.S. territory if it joined the Central Powers.
What was the Zimmerman Telegram?
This constitutional amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
This board, led by Bernard Baruch, coordinated manufacturing for the war effort.
What was the War Industries Board?
This payment method allowed Americans to buy products and pay over time in the 1920s.
What is installment buying?
The U.S. Senate refused to ratify this postwar organization, leading to American isolationism.
What was the League of Nations?
This socialist leader was imprisoned for making an anti-war speech in 1918.
Who was Eugene Debs?
The resumption of this German naval policy in 1917 was a key factor in the U.S. entry into WWI.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
African American soldiers were sometimes assigned to fight with this country’s army during WWI.
What is France?
This future president headed the Food Administration during WWI.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
This new medium brought news, music, and advertisements into American homes during the 1920s.
What was radio?
This term describes the fear of communism that swept the U.S. after WWI.
What was the Red Scare?
During WWI, this group of Americans migrated from the South to Northern cities in search of industrial jobs.
Who were African Americans (The Great Migration)?
Wilson claimed the U.S. was entering WWI to make the world safe for this.
What is democracy?
This was the name for women who challenged traditional norms in the 1920s.
What were flappers?
The sale of these bonds helped finance the U.S. war effort.
What are Liberty Bonds?
This term describes the movement of Americans from cities to residential areas outside city centers, enabled by the automobile.
What is suburbanization (or the growth of suburbs)?
This 1921 law set immigration quotas for the first time in U.S. history.
What was the Emergency Quota Act?