1. World War I on The Home Front
Life in the United States during WWI

2. How did the war affect Americans at home?
For the first time, the government played a major role in Americans’ daily lives, taking on new powers to regulate industry, draft soldiers, and shape public opinion.
The war required sacrifice, but it also brought new opportunities.

3. How to Pay for a War Liberty Bonds- a sort of loan to the government
People bought them in exchange for payment in the future
How to Pay for a War

4. Government Actions to Pay
War Revenue Act of established higher taxes and increased taxes for wealthy
Borrowed Money- National Debt went from $1.2 billion to $25.5 billion
Government Actions to Pay

5. $ The federal government took control of the wartime economy.
The Council of National Defense created federal agencies to oversee food production, fuel distribution, and railroads. $
Bernard Baruch headed the War Industries Board (WIB), which regulated war-related businesses.
The Food Administration, led by Herbert Hoover, set prices for agricultural products. 5

7. Take Advantage of the Sun
Government passed the Standard Time Act
Effort to save fuel
Extend working time for production
Promoted “Gasless Sundays” and “Heatless Mondays”
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Take Advantage of the Sun

8. Banned the “manufacture, sale or transportation” of alcohol in the U.S.
Why would this be beneficial to the war effort?
Most alcohols made with grapes and wheat– save for the troops
The 18th Amendment

9. Do Your Part President Hoover and the Government asked Americans to:
Plant “Victory Gardens”
Have “Meatless Mondays” and “Wheatless Wednesdays”
Why would the government do this?
Would you do this if your government asked you to during a war?
Do Your Part

10. The War Industries Board encouraged factories to increase output.
Similarly, the Food Administration encouraged farmers to produce more food.
Women entered the workforce to help the war effort. 10

11. Women & the War Filled the open jobs that men had before war
Worked all sorts of jobs- factories, farms, railroads, docks
Built ships and airplanes
Women & the War

12. Left-Woman Traffic Cop
Above- Female Auto Mechanics

13. Female Farmers

14. About 1 million women joined the workforce during WWI
After the war, many of them were forced to leave by employers to give jobs back to men
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Women in the Workforce