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WWI

Homefront

Freedom of Speech

Labor Force

Government Power

Red Summer

Red Scare

A mood of increased paranoia

Paranoia intensifies by the Russian Revolution in 1917

Americans began to fear a communist takeover

Red here signifies communist

Radical labor unions were branded enemies of the state

Business assumed greater power, while unions lost power

In April of 1919, a series of bombs exploded in several American cities.

nearly 40 homemade letter bombs addressed to prominent citizens were intercepted

In the Palmer Raids in early 1920, the government abandoned all pretext of respecting civil liberties

terrorism and racial riots took place in more than three dozen cities across the United States

Black men and women largely approached the war with a sense of civic duty

Black Americans faced was continued discrimination and increased violence

roughly 370,000 Black men were inducted into the army

Black americans thought that becaused they served in war, they were going to receive more civil rights

Race riots erupted in several cities

government’s power expanded greatly during the 3 years America was involved in World War I

the federal government had appropriated $32 billon for war expenses

$23 billion were raised because of the 16th amendment

the government took control of the telephone, telegraph, and rail industries

The War Industry Board (WIB)

National War Labor Board

Immigration to the United States slowed

Northern businesses sent recruiting agents into the Deep South to find workers for their factories and mills

more than 500,000 blacks left the South in search of work

new opportunities for women

Women started working in factories

individual civil liberties during the war were curtailed.

Selective Service Act of 1917

In all, more than 1,500 people were arrested in 1918 for the crime of criticizing the government or the war