Task:
- Introduce inquiry for class: How did America's involvement in WWI impact the homefront?
- Discuss what the question is asking
- "Impact the homefront" - what does that mean?
- Contextualize the question by considering whether or not Wilson's war declaration, in which he declares US should help "make the world safe for democracy," extends to people in the US as well.
- Use the phrases "extend opportunity" and "contract opportunity" as direction to this question.
- Use this organizer for your notes:
- Work together on first row: Civil Liberties
- U.S. mobilizes for total war
- Mobilization of economy - Federal government exercised unprecedented powers to coordinate and control economic decision-making
- War Industries Board, National War Labor Board, Food Administration
- Mobilization of public opinion - freedom of speech was restricted during WWI add information to chart under contraction column
- Committee on Public Information - propaganda
- Suppression of freedom of speech
- Espionage & Sedition Act
- Schenck v. US (1919)
- Spend the rest of class time using notes to add evidence to the chart.
