The Home Front: Ch. 10 sec 2
13. How did some men evade the draft?
Name _____________________________________ Pd __________
Identify or Define the following term and people:
14. What happened to those men?
1. Selective Service Act
2. Bernard Baruch
15. Why do you think the NAWSA decided to support the war?
3. Committee on Public Information (CPI)
4. George Creel
5. Conscientious objector
16. Why did some people fear that the Espionage Act would erode
Americans’ civil liberties?
6. Espionage Act
7. Sedition Act
17. How did the Supreme Court justify the restrictions of the Sedition
Act?
8. Great Migration
Answer the following questions:
18. What was the significance of Schenck v. United States (1919)?
9. Why might the government institute a draft?
19. List new opportunities Women took advantage of during the War.
10. How did industry change during the war?
20. What new opportunities were available to African Americans?
11. Why did Hoover encourage food conservation?
21. Why did Mexican Americans move north?
12. Why did the government establish the committee on Public
Information?
22. What circumstances allowed these social changes to take place?