WWI - The War at Home

Please read Chapter 19-3 - The War at Home and post your answer to the following questions. Your answers are due by the end of the day Friday, Dec. 11.
Title: WWI - The War at Home Labels: Propaganda, WWI, domestic, Wilson

What were some things accomplished by the following wartime agencies and laws?

1. War Industries Board
Applied price control onto their products making the retail rices double the amount they were prior to the war.

2. Railroad Administration
Cotrolling the railways made it possible for them to conserve gas. public transportation was vital to doing this.

3. Fuel Administration
They raised the price of fuel making Americans utilize trains.

4. National War Labor Board
created by nixon to punish laborers who would not obey board descisions. the laborers would lose their draft extemptions. they also worked actively to make sure that factories were a clean safe enviroment for workers and that child labor would be banned.

5. Food Administration
conserving food involved limiting production of meats ect. homeowners began to make homegrown farms.

6. Committee on Public Information
promoted nationalism and patriotism but also led opposers of the war and certain groups to feel as if their rights were being violated.

7. Espionage and Sedition Acts
anyone opposed to the war would be charged 10 million dollars and sentenced to 20 years in prison charge providing. freedom of speech was not allowed.
Briefly explain why Bernard M. Baruch and George Creel are significant historical figures.