Ch. 24 –
The Home Front
EQ: How did Americans on the Home Front support or oppose World War I?
24.1 – Coach Schroeder reads introduction
24.2-5 – Create the table in your IAN like the example on the Handout.
Section & Group
Did this group support or oppose the War?
Section 2:
Pacifists
Opposed
Section 2:
Four-minute Men
Section 3:
American families
Supported
Mostly supported
In what ways did this group support or oppose
the War?
1. A group of women started the
Woman’s Peace Party.
2. Some young men declared
themselves conscientious objectors
and refused to serve in the armed
forces.
1. Four-Minute Men made short
speeches for the Committee on Public
Information.
2. These patriotic speeches addressed
such topics as why the United States
was fighting the war.
3. Explained why people needed to
conserve fuel.
1. Families bought Liberty Bonds to help
finance the war
2. Families participated in Meatless
Mondays and Wheatless Wednesdays
to conserve food and reduce waste.
How did World War I affect this group?
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The military drafted many pacifists
into the armed forces despite their
objections.
Pacifists who refused to serve in the
military risked going to prison.
The Four-Minute Men received
speeches about every 10 days from
the Committee on Public Information.
In places with large numbers of
immigrants.
They gave speeches in different
languages.
To help finance the war, more
families paid income tax when the
level of taxable income was reduced
to $1,000.
Families started observing daylight
savings to conserve energy.
Section 3:
Federal government officials
Supported
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3.
Section 4:
African American leaders
Some supported and others opposed
1.
2.
Section 4:
African American migrants
Mostly supported
1.
2.
Section 5:
Immigrants
Mostly supported
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2.
3.
Section 5:
Wobblies
Opposed
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2.
The War Industries Board
coordinated the work of many
government agencies & industry
groups.
To make sure supplies and equipment
were produced and delivered to the
military.
The government worked to ensure
the cooperation of unions in the war
effort.
W. E. B. Du Bois wrote an editorial in
the NAACP newspaper urging blacks
to serve in the military.
William Monroe Trotter argued that
the government should work to end
discrimination at home before
fighting for democracy overseas.
Some African Americans served in the
military.
Some African Americans worked in
the thousands of new jobs that
opened up at northern factories as
production of war materials rose.
Immigrants bought war bonds.
Immigrant families participated in
conservation efforts.
Immigrants worked in wartime
industries.
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Wobblies spoke out against the war
in their newspaper, Industrial Worker.
Wobblies believed they could not be
forced to fight in a war they did not
agree with
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New government agencies were
formed, providing more jobs.
National War Labor Board looked at
such issues as wages and hours.
Black leaders disagreed about how
African Americans should respond to
the war effort.
Lynchings, Jim Crow laws, and
segregated army units still troubled
many African Americans.
Many African Americans from the
South headed north during the Great
Migration.
In some northern cities, racial
tensions erupted into riots.
Rumors of enemy agents sparked
anti-immigrant sentiments.
Recent immigrants became targets of
self-appointed patriot groups.
Immigrants were suspected of
disloyalty.
The Wobblies’ antiwar views gave
their enemies a chance to attack
them as disloyal.
Federal agents raided some ofthe
Wobblies’ meeting halls in 1917.