The document summarizes how the American homefront was impacted during World War 1. It discusses how the government instituted policies like the draft and propaganda to enforce loyalty. Agencies were created to oversee war production, financing, and labor disputes. Women entered the workforce in greater numbers while immigration declined. Roles changed as blacks and Hispanics took new industrial jobs and children participated in patriotic youth groups.

1. Homefront Fighting the war Draft-work or fight Government agencies created Women roles changed Propaganda Propaganda-enforced loyalty Committee of Public Information , George Creel Restrictions on immigration (xenophobia) Espionage Act 1917 Censorship of radical writings Sedition Act1918 Anti-socialist and anti-union

2. Homefront Financing the war Liberty Bonds War Industries Board - Bernard Baruck Raw materials, production quotas, fixed prices Conserve grain passage of 18 th amendment War Trade Board Investigated war profiteers National Board Labor Board Forced labor disputes threatening war production Labor Policies Board - Felix Frankfurter Set wages and working conditions Government instituted collective bargaining

3. Homefront Roles Changed Women Took jobs reserved for men (400,00) Leads to 19 th Amendment Blacks and Hispanics Took jobs from the stemmed tide of immigration 500,00 Blacks moved north- ” The Great Migration” Children Boy Scouts/Girl Scouts Physical Education becomes part of HS curriculum

6. Bandwagon is an appeal to the subject to follow the crowd, to join in because others are doing so as well. Glittering Generalities are words that have different positive meaning for individual subjects, but are linked to highly valued concepts Name Calling is the use of derogatory language or words that carry a negative connotation when describing an enemy Pinpointing, Simplification, Stereotyping is an attempt to simplify a complex situation by presenting one specific group or person as the enemy Transfer is an attempt to make the subject view a certain item in the same way as they view another item, to link the two in the subjects mind