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World War I part 2: 1917-1919. The Progressive War at Home Wartime increases in federal power  War Revenue Act of 1917  tax burden on corp’s & wealthy.

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1 World War I part 2: 1917-1919

2 The Progressive War at Home Wartime increases in federal power  War Revenue Act of 1917  tax burden on corp’s & wealthy  War Industries Board (Bernard Baruch)  set production levels and prices  Fuel Administration  regulated coal production and consumption  March 1918: Daylight Savings Time  Food Administration (Herbert Hoover)  rationing of meat, flour, sugar, etc.  public control of the railroads

3 The Progressive War at Home Advances for underprivileged citizens  workers  more jobs, better wages  the National War Labor Board  min. wage, 8-hour day, collective bargaining, proworker arbitration  women  entry into the workforce  women’s suffrage, 1920  African-Americans  the Great Migration  military service & “the New Negro”

4 The Progressive War at Home Wartime repression  the American Protective League  1917 Espionage Act and 1918 Sedition Act  Eugene Debs  “100% Americanism”  intolerance of immigrant cultures  antiunion, antisocialism, antipacifism  German Americans

5 The Progressive War Abroad Wilson and world democracy  January 1918: the 14 Points  free trade – freedom of the seas and removal of trade barriers  national self-determination  arms reduction  a league of nations

6 The Progressive War Abroad The Treaty of Versailles  Wilson at Paris  reparations?  $120 billion  national self- determination?  mandates  the League of Nations  the treaty defeated  Republicans: isolationism  Wilson’s intransigence

7 The Death of Progressivism Impact of the war  Division into pro- and antiwar factions  Disillusionment  CPI’s public-unity tactics  failure of wartime reforms  Wilson’s “new world order” Epilogue  LaFollette and the Progressive Party  Socialists  small-scale reform within government  materialism of the Jazz Age “His Best Customer” (1917)


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