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Congress Gives Power to Wilson
The economy caused Americans to take a different perspective. The War Industries Board (WIB), lead by Bernard M. Baruch, encouraged companies to use mass production. As a result, retail prices, as well as corporate profit soared. President WIlson established the National War Labor Board to deal with disputes between management and labor. -
Selling the War
U.S. spent about $33 million directly on war. They tried to obtain money by raising income taxes, highering excise taxes, and selling war bonds.George Creel mobilized the nation's artists and advertising people, who created thousands of paintings, posters, cartoons, and sculptures, promoting the war. -
Attacks on Civil Liberties
After the war, people became "anti-immigrant." The U.s. passed the Espionage and Sedition Acts, meaning a person could be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to 20 years in jail for interfereing with the draft, obstructing the sale of government bonds, or saying anything disloyal about the government or the war. -
Social changes During the War
African Americans backed the war. The Great migration is the large scale movement of hundreds of thousands of southern blacks to cities in the north
