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1916 Election WW – “He kept us out of the war.”

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1 1916 Election WW – “He kept us out of the war.”
Rep. – Charles Evans Hughes WW went to bed thinking he lost Barely won California – won by 3K votes

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3 Selective Service Act = Draft

4 American Expeditionary Force
John J. Pershing – US commander

5 Doughboy

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14 CPI - Creel

15 4 Minute Men

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22 War Industries Board Bernard Baruch – in charge

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25 Chicago Race Riot

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31 Eugene Debs – Sedition Act – 10 years!!!
Anti-War Sentiments Eugene Debs – Sedition Act – 10 years!!!

32 Schenck vs. US Justice Holmes sets out the "clear and present danger" test: The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. [...] The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent


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