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Wartime Repression

Published on Mar 18, 2016

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WARTIME REPRESSION

AND ANTI-GERMAN SENTIMENTS
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ANTI-GERMAN SENTIMENT

  • Americans of German descent were accused of being disloyal
  • Schools banned the teaching of German language and history
  • German words were changed (sauerkraut = "liberty cabbage"
  • Mobs attacked German-language and socialist newspaper offices
  • German immigrants were treated poorly
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ESPIONAGE ACT

  • Fines and jail time were given to anyone who protested the draft
  • Basically made disloyalty to the US illegal
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C Paulsen