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Selective Service Act

Law passed in 1917 to quickly increase enlistment in the army for the United States’ entry into World War I; required men to register with the draft.

War Industries Board

Board run by financier Bernard Baruch that planned production and allocation of war material, supervised purchasing, and fixed prices, 1917-1919.

Committee on Public Information (CPI)

Created by the Wilson administration in April 1917. The committee enlisted academics, journalists, artists, and advertising men to flood America with pro war propaganda in the form of pamphlets, posters, newspaper ads, and motion pictures. It also trained and dispatched 75,000 Four-Minute Men, who delivered brief standardized talks to audiences in movie theaters, schools, and other public places.

19th Amendment

In 1920, it barred states from using gender as a qualification for the suffrage.

18th Amendment

It was passed in December 1917, ratified by states in 1919, and put into effect at the beginning of 1920. It prohibited the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor.

Espionage Act

1917 law that prohibited spying and interfering with the draft as well as making “false statements” that hurt the war effort.

Sedition Act

1918 law that made it a crime to make spoken or printed statements that criticized the U.S. government or encouraged interference with the war effort.