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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)