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The War at Home

The War at Home. My Little Wet Home. Over There vs My Little Wet Home Which one is a more accurate picture of the War?. Over There. Tone: Audience: Message:. Tone: Audience: Message:. Paying for the War. US spent $35.5 billion on the war effort Raised one-third through taxes

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The War at Home

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  1. The War at Home

  2. My Little Wet Home Over There vs My Little Wet HomeWhich one is a more accurate picture of the War? Over There Tone: Audience: Message: • Tone: • Audience: • Message:

  3. Paying for the War • US spent $35.5 billion on the war effort • Raised one-third through taxes • Made the other two-thirds through bonds • Victory Loans // Liberty Loans • Propaganda helps raise money through the selling of bonds

  4. Anti-Immigrant Hysteria • “Once lead this people into war and they’ll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street. Conformity would be the only virtue, and every man who refused to conform would have to pay the penalty.” • Woodrow Wilson

  5. Anti-Immigrant Hysteria • Immigrants were targeted – especially Germans and Austrians • Didn’t matter if they were born there / were just of German descent • Americans with German names lost their jobs • Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms were not played anymore • Towns with German names changed them • Schools stopped teaching German

  6. Anti-Immigrant Hysteria • German-Americans were tarred and feathered, as well as flogged and lynched • German measles  liberty measles • Hamburger  Salisbury steak or liberty sandwich • Sauerkraut  liberty cabbage • Dachshunds  liberty pups • Does this still happen? • Freedom Fries?????

  7. Espionage and Sedition Acts • Passed in 1917 and 1918 by Congress • People could be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to 20 years in jail for interfering with the war effort or saying anything disloyal • Does this violate the 1st Amendment? (yes)

  8. Espionage and Sedition Acts • People also lost jobs, were deported, and were targeted • Targets especially socialists and labor leaders • Eugene V Debs is thrown in jail for 10 years • Emma Goldman is deported to Russia • Leaders of the IWW are jailed/deported and the union disappears

  9. Great Migration • Large scale movement of African Americans from the South to the North • Began before the war, but accelerated wildly • Why did they move? • Escape racial discrimination in the South • Natural disasters in the South • Jobs in the North! Factories! War industries!

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