2. Encouraged
companies to use
mass production
techniques and to
standardize products
Set production quotas
Allocated raw
materials
Increased industrial
production by about
20 percent
Caused retail prices
and corporate profits
to soar
4. Food
Administration
Resolved labor Encouraged Americans
disputes to reduce their
Pushed for improved consumption of food
working conditions voluntarily
Tripled food shipments
to the Allies
Set a high government
price for wheat and
other staples
5. Bonds that allowed the
government to borrow
money
Helped to raise 2/3 of
the $3.35 billion to
finance the war
Every adult American
lent the U.S. $400.
6. Mobilized the
nation’s artists and
advertising people to
popularize the war
Recruited 75,000 Four
Minute Men to deliver
pro-war speeches
Increased support for
the war
7. The prosecution of
2,000 people and the
convictions of more
than 1,000
Loss of mailing
privileges for
publications that
criticized the war
Firing of people
opposed to the war
Imprisonment of
Eugene Debs, Emma
Goldman, and Bill
Haywood
8. Many lost their jobs
Some were attacked or
killed
9. The Great Migration
involved the massive
movement of African
Americans from Southern
rural areas to Northern
cities. It caused problems
for African Americans as
they began to live in cities,
but also improved their
economic opportunities
African-American soldiers
were allowed for the first
time to serve under
African-American officers
10. Many women moved
into jobs traditionally
held by men
Women’s wartime
efforts led to the
passage of the
Nineteenth
Amendment, which
recognized their right
to vote
11. He was able to use the
War Industries Board
to regulate the
economy that allowed
the U.S. military to get
the supplies it needed.
12. He used the
Committee on Public
Information to gain
support for the war at
home. This led to
people conserving
supplies and donating
time and money to the
war effort.
Editor's Notes
A woman welder in 1918.. IRC. 2005. Discovery Education. 17 February 2009 <http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/> WWI poster urges children's help in agriculture.. IRC. 2005. Discovery Education. 17 February 2009 <http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/>
World War I soldiers on a train at Salinas.. IRC. 2005. Discovery Education. 17 February 2009 <http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/>
The deportation of IWW strikers, July 1917. War mobilization led union leaders like Samuel Gompers to seek a balance between the need for industrial production and the fair treatment of laboring men and women. Gompers was put on the National War Labor Board, promising to prevent strikes, and during the war many of labor's goals sought by the social justice reformers of the Progressive era became Board policy: an eight-hour day in war industries, and protection of the right of labor to organize. Union membership grew from 2.5 million members in 1916 to 4 million in 1919. But not all laborers supported the war effort. Despite Gompers' moratorium on strikes, rebellious locals and the Industrial Workers of the World participated in more than 6,000 strikes in protest against working conditions and inflation. The IWW also campaigned against the draft. Many IWW members were German immigrants, and the army raided western mining camps on the pretext of searching out enemy aliens, crushed strikes there, and deported or jailed IWW leaders. The deportation of IWW strikers, July 1917.. IRC. 2005. Discovery Education. 17 February 2009 <http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/>
