CHAPTER 12

FINANCING THE WAR

• Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts
• Government hired popular commercial artists to draw colorful posters recruited famous screen actors to lead public rallies to buy bonds
• Americans were able to show their patriotism

Financing the war (continued)

• Government also recruited famous screen actors to lead public rallies to buy bonds
• Americans were able to show their patriotism

CREATION OF NEW AGENCIES

• Instead of producing commercial goods they made raw goods
• National War Labor Board worked to settle any labor disputes that would disrupt the war effort
• Labor unions won limited rights to organize and bargain collectively

RATIONING RESOURCES

• Congress passed the Lever Food and Fuel Control Act
• Gave the president the power to manage the production and distribution of foods and fuel vital to the war effort
• Price controls- system of pricing determined but the government on the sale of food
• Rationing- distributing goods to consumers in a fixed amount

LOYALTY

• Espionage Act- illegal to interfere with the draft
• Sedition Act- it was illegal to obstruct the sale of Liberty Bonds or to discuss anything dishonorable about the American form of government, constitution, or the army or the navy

Loyalty (c0ntinued)

• Violated the first amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech

Social Mobility

• Factory owners and managers started hiring African American and Mexican Americans because they needed workers
• African Americans left the South to work in northern factories

Social MObility (continued)

• Women found jobs in farms, as telegraph messengers, elevator operators, letter carriers and similar jobs
• About 400,000 women joined the industrial work force