Acts and Laws

Question 1

Selective Service Act

Answer 1

a law passed by Congress in 1917 to create a national draft

Question 2

Committee on Public Information (CPI)

Answer 2

a government agency created by President Woodrow Wilson in 1917, during World War I, to promote pro-war propaganda to the American public

Question 3

George Creel

Answer 3

head of the United States Committee on Public Information,

Question 4

Espionage Act

Answer 4

a law passed by Congress in 1917 to make it illegal to spy, interfere with government foreign policy, or resist the military draft

Question 5

Sedition Act

Answer 5

a law passed by Congress in 1918 to make it illegal to say anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the government or the war effort

Question 6

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Answer 6

a treaty signed between the Russia and the Central Powers that ended Russia’s participation in World War I.. Russia had to give up a lot of land to get out of WWI