War on the Home Front

1. War on the Home Front • Wartime Reform: Woman Suffrage and Prohibition • Promoting National Unity

3. This image shows the suffrage militants of the National Woman's Party picketing the White House during World War I. College graduates, they identified themselves by their alma maters. Though criticized by more moderate suffragists, these radical suffragists sought to embarrass President Wilson by graphically pointing out the hypocrisy of a war fought for democracy while women at home were not enfranchised.

4. Prohibition Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure or even diminish it. MARK TWAIN

5. The Anti-Saloon League of America saw conquering the alcohol problem as more than an American crusade. In 1916 at the convention of the ASL in Indianapolis Ernest Cherrington presented an address to the convention titled "The World Movement Toward Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic."

6. No beer, no vodka, no rum, no fun. Prohibition in the 1920’s was nation wide when the 18th Amendment went into affect. On January 16, 1920 the United States officially had a ban on the sale, consumption, and creation of all alcoholic beverages.

8. Promoting National Unity • Committee on Public Information headed by George Creel

9. An Unsettled Peace 1919-1920 • Treaty of Versailles • Racial Strife

10. Treaty of Versailles • 14 Points • Georges Clemenceau stated Moses only had to have 10 Commandments – Wilson has to have 14

11. Racial Strife, Labor Unrest, and the Red Scare • .

12. Mitchell Palmer

14. Modern Times: The 1920s

15. Business-Government Partnership of the 1920s • Politics in the Republican “New Era” • The Economy • Economic Expansion Abroad

16. A New National Culture • A Consumer Culture • Mass Media and New Patterns of Leisure

17. Dissenting Values and Cultural Conflict • The Rise of Nativism • Legislating Values: The Scopes Trial and Prohibition • Intellectual Crosscurrents • Cultural Clash in the Election of 1928

22. These Border Patrol officers in Laredo, Texas, in 1926 were deputized to stop illegal immigration from Mexico. Their guns, military uniforms, and stern expressions did not present a warm welcome to immigrants arriving from south of the border.