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victory gardens

• conserve by growing your own food

selective service act

• required all men 21-30 to register for the draft

• 2.8 million drafted

• 2 million volunteered

• 50k died in combat; 200k wounded

espionage (spying) act

• law set heavy fines and long prison terms for those who engaged in antiwar activities/illegal to aid the enemy, give false reports or interfere w/the war effort 

sedition act

• illegal to speak against the war publically

savings bonds

• lending money to  the gov’t to be repaid w/interest w/in a specified number of year (ex. lent 200 to government, in 5 years get payed 400)

cpi - committee on public information

• led by george creel, created by woodrow wilson

• influence public opinion and gain support for the US in World War I

nwlb - national war labor board

• established to prevent strikes during wartime

• ­Pressured industries to improve wages; 8hr workdays; allowed unions to organize/bargain collectively

fuel administration

• managed the use of coal and oil to conserve energy. 

schenck v the us

• No person  may use free speech to place others in danger.

• 1^st Case to challenge 1^st Amendment rights to free speech; upheld by the Supreme Court

• Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes upheld Schenck's conviction and ruled that the Espionage Act did not conflict with the First Amendment.

food administration

• increase food production; reduce civilian consumption. 

war industries board

• coordinated the production of war materials(­Told manufacturers what to produce, allocated raw materials and set prices)

women in the armed forces

• 1 million join the workforce because men are out fighting. (factories, mail carriers, train engineers, police)

the great migration

• Many African Americans left the South during WWI and moved North to work in factories that produced war materials