3/31/23 Quiz Flashcards
What converts factories so they could produce war products?
The War Industries Board
Was headed by George Creel and persuaded Americans that war was needed in order to preserve Democracy in the war
Committee on Public Info
Journalist who headed the Committee on Public Info
George Creel
This referred to a time between 1914 and 1920 when 500,000 African Americans left the south and migrated up to the north for jobs
Great Migration
People who refused to fight in any war because they believed it was wrong
Pacifists
People who believed in socialism
Socialists
An economic system in which individuals own person property, but the public owns the means of production
Socialism
The means of production
factories and natural resources
Said that war didn’t help workers, it just helped factory owners
Socialists
Acts which made it a crime to say or print anything negative about the government
Espionage Act, Sabotage Act, Sedition Act
Senator from Indiana who spoke out against the war and was arrested under the Sedition Act of 1918
Eugene V. Debs
The Act Eugene V. Debs was arrested under
Sedition Act
