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History II
Chapter 19 Sec 2
Question | Answer |
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Selective Service Act | authorized a draft to young men for military service in Europe |
Great National Lottery | to decide order in which first draftees would be called into service |
Council of National Defense | created an array of new federal administrative agencies to oversee different phases of war effort |
War Industries Board | -regulated all industries engaged in war effort -headed by Bernard Baruch |
Bernard Baruch | -head of War Industries Board -determined what product industries would make |
Food Administration | -set prices high for wheat and other foodstuffs to increase produce -headed by Herbert Hoover |
Herbert Hoover | -head of Food Administration -asked Amer. to eat less= more food for soldiers |
Committee on Public Information | -to educate the public about cause and nature of war -headed by George Creel |
George Creel | -director of Committee on Public Info -former journalist and passionate admirer of Amer. institution |
Conscientious objectors | people whose moral or religious beliefs forbid them to fight wars |
Jane Adams | header of the Women's Peace Party |
Jeannette Rankin | -first woman to serve in U.S. House of Rep. -voted against declaration of war |
Espionage Act | -allowing postal authorities to ban treasonable newspapers or printed materials -punishment 10,000 fine & 20 yrs. imprisonment |
Sedition Act | limited freedom of speech |
Eugene V. Debs | -leader of Socialist Party in Amer. -imprisoned under Sedition Act: 10 yrs |
Schneck v. United States | -case that upheld Sedition Act -ruled that 1st Amen. doesn't always apply |
19th Amendment | women suffrage |
Land of Hope | Afr. Amer. moved to North from South |
Great Migration | great movement of Afr. Amer. from rural South to industrial North |
Chicago Defender | newspaper in North encouraged Afr. Amer. to move |
Barrios | Hispanic neighborhoods in Los Angeles |