Video 5 - Home front

Total War

Requires a state leverage of all resources home and abroad to be able to engage in combat

War Industries Board

War industries board: prepare for an increase in supplies and manufacturing

National war labor board

Represents labor unions for fair work treatment, and ensuring no strikes to not slow down work production, increased jobs

1917 Espionage act

Anti-war activities declared illegal

1918 Sedition act

Prohibits expression of antigovernment belief

Schenck v US 1919

SCOTUS rule that the restriction of the freedom of speech is legal if it is considered a national security threat

American protective league

formed in 1917 by nativists and the Department of Justice funding

1917 Red Scare

• Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution for communism

• Founding of Comintern; Russian leader group, encouraging the start of global revolutions for communism under capitalistic societies such as the US

• Irrational Fear of communists within the United states, led to false accusations landing hundreds imprisoned

Palmer Raides 1919-1920

• Led by Attorney General Mitchell A Palmer

• 6000 immigrants imprissoned

• Immigration acts 1921 and 1924 decreased immigration quotas

• Capture and arrest suspected socialists, especially anarchists and communists, and deport them from the United States.

The Great Migration

The Great Migration was the movement of millions of African Americans from rural communities in the South to large cities in the North and West. The migration took place between 1916 and 1970.

Plessy v Ferguson

SCOTUS upheld the constitutionality of the “Separate but equal doctrine”

1921 Tulsa massacre

The burning of a successful black Neighborhood in Oklahoma under false accusations of an African-American assault, one of the most violent race riots