Committee On Public Information --Bolsheviks
19th amendment
Gave women the right to vote in 1920
Herbert Hoover
President 1929-1933, leader of the food administration
18th amendment
Prohibition-banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the us in 1919
Big Bill Haywood
Prominent figure in the American labor movement, he was a leader of the western federation of miners, a founding member and leader of the industrial workers of the world(IWW) and a member of the executive committee of the socialist party of America
Committee on public information
Propaganda committee that built support for the war effort in Europe among Americans and led to anti-German feelings in America
Bolsheviks
Radical Marxist political party founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1903 and under his leadership the Bolsheviks seized power in November of 1917 during the Russian revolution.
The Hun
A derogatory term used to describe Germans during World War One
Sedition act 1918
Added to the espionage act and deemed "disloyal,profane,scurrilous, or abusive language" about American government, constitution, flag, or armed forces as criminal and worthy of prosecution
Fuel administration
Encouraged Americans to save fuel with "heatless Mondays" and "gasless Sundays"
Food administration
Government agency headed by Herbert Hoover and was established to increase production of food and to ration food for the military
George Creel
Investigative journalist most famous for being the head of the United States committee on public information created by Woodrow Wilson
Espionage act 1917
Law passed on June 15, 1917 after the US entry into the war to punish acts of interference with foreign relations, and to punish people who aided enemies or refused military duty in World War One