World War Ipart 2: 1917-1919

The Progressive War at Home

Wartime increases in federal powerWar 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

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”

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

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

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

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)