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Labor won concessions during the war that had earlier been denied. overseas shipment of food tripled.įormer president William Howard Taft helped arbitrate disputes between workers and employers as head of the National War Labor Board. The conservation drive paid off, in two years, U.S. Set production priorities and established centralize control over raw materials and prices.Įncouraged American households to eat less meat and bread so that more food could be shipped abroad for the French and British troop.

Take a look at some examples below and try to understand what argument they're making: Propaganda pieces were especially visual and direct in their message of a pro-US and anti-German sentiment. Propaganda was one of the most important ways the public interfaced with the war. In contrast, the US government cranked out propaganda, informational material designed to push a certain perspective (which is almost always pro-government), through organizations like CPI (Committee on Public Information) that produced propaganda posters like the one shown to the right and through patriotic speeches by “Four-Minute Men”. He was nominated as the Socialist Party candidate for President in 1920 and ran from prison, and still got a million votes. He was convicted for violation of the Espionage Act and spent the war in a penitentiary in Atlanta. Debs delivered a speech denouncing capitalism and the war. Sedition Act, imposing harsh penalties on anyone use “disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language” about the government, flag or armed forces uniforms.Įugene V. Instead of curbing the repression, Wilson encouraged it.Įspionage Act of 1917 which imposed sentences of up to 20 years for persons found guilty of aiding the enemy, obstructing recruitment of soldiers or encouraging disloyalty. The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger…” This ruling would eventually be overturned by Brandenburg v.

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The majority opinion famously limited first amendment free speech by saying “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. United States, when the Supreme Court ruled against a socialist passing out anti-draft leaflets. One related case you should know is Schenck v. Debs was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison for outspoken opposition to the war. Socialists, pacifists, and others who opposed the war were often arrested and punished: socialist leader Eugene V. They bound him with an American flag, paraded him through town and then lynched him. He was then hanged from a railroad trestle.Ī Missouri mob seized Robert Prager, whose only crime was being born in Germany. Frank Little, an antiwar official of the Industrial Workers of the World in Butte, Montana was taken from his boardinghouse, tied to the rear of an automobile, and dragged through the streets until his kneecaps were scraped off. Orchestra pieces by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms vanished from symphonic programs.Īmerican anti-war figures were beaten in and some cases killed. Saloon keepers removed pretzels from the bar.

Sauerkraut become known as “liberty cabbage” Many schools stopped offering instruction in German. Because the US had experienced such high immigration in the decades before WWI, some Americans questioned the loyalty of recent immigrants, especially if they were from Central Powers countries like Austria-Hungary and Germany. Like most conflicts in US history, WWI caused questions about civil liberties, immigration, and opposition (think Alien & Sedition Acts during the Quasi War or Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War).