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Question | Answer |
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Sentenced to 10 years in jail for saying the rich had declared war while the poor had to fight the battles | Eugene V. Debs |
Headed by Herbert Hoover; raised production while reducing civilian use through "Meatless Tuesdays, Wheatless Wednesdays, and Porkless Saturdays" | Food Administration |
Composed of representatives of labor, management, and the public; established an 8 hour day for war workers with extra pay for overtime; recognized labor's right to form unions while workers were not allowed to disrupt war production | National War Labor Board |
This group controlled American propaganda and strengthened popular support for the war | Creel Commission |
Established in 1917 to mobilize the economy; allocated materials, told manufacturers what to produce, and sometimes fixed prices | War Industries Board |
Attorney General who capitalized on the Red Scare to investigate radicals and arrest anarchists and socialists | A. Mitchell Palmer |
Sentenced to death for presumably killing a shoe company paymaster; probably innocent and convicted for being anarchists and aliens | Sacco and Vanzetti |
1918 legislation that outlawed interference with recruitment, obstruction of bond sales, or speaking out against the US and its involvement in WWI | Sedition Act |
Instituted the draft | Selective Service Act |
Headed the War Industries Board | Bernard Baruch |
Leader of Great Britain during WWI | David Lloyd George |
Governor of Boston who declared "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time," during a police strike | Calvin Coolidge |
Imposed stiff penalties for anti-war activities and allowed the federal government to ban treasonous materials from the mail | Espionage Act |
Leader of France during WWI | Georges Clemenceau |
Movement of African Americans from the South to the North in search of jobs in industry | Great Migration |
Instituted a tax on corporations and wealthy individuals in order to finance the war | War Revenue Bills |
Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and leader of the "Reservationists;" he led the fight against the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles | Henry Cabot Lodge |