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Bell Ringer (pg. 9)

Bell Ringer (pg. 9). What was the purpose of President Wilson’s “War Industry Board”? Why were people encouraged to eat less meat? What is propaganda?. PG 9 CONTINUED. WE ARE GOING TO READ ALOUD CH. 11 SECT. 3 WE ARE GOING TO TAKE NOTES ON IT. Saving the Economy.

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Bell Ringer (pg. 9)

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  1. Bell Ringer (pg. 9) • What was the purpose of President Wilson’s “War Industry Board”? • Why were people encouraged to eat less meat? • What is propaganda?

  2. PG 9 CONTINUED WE ARE GOING TO READ ALOUD CH. 11 SECT. 3 • WE ARE GOING TO TAKE NOTES ON IT

  3. Saving the Economy • The War Industries Board (WIB) was established by President Woodrow Wilson to eliminate waste during the war • “Gasless Sundays” and “lightless nights” encouraged to save fuel • Days of the week delcared: “meatless”, “sweetless”, “wheatless”, “porkless”

  4. What kind of cars were driven in 1918? • Cadillac Touring (the lucky ones) • Ford Model T (middle class)

  5. Victory Gardens – to help the food supply, homeowners planted produce in their yards. Schoolchildren grew tomatoes and cucumbers in public parks.

  6. Winning People Over • To popularize the war, the government set up a propaganda agency. • Propaganda is designed to influence people’s thoughts and actions (advertisement)

  7. Anti-German Hysteria • Many Americans blamed and attacked German-Americans • Many people w/ German names lost jobs • Orchestras refused to play music of Mozart or Beethoven • Schools stopped teaching German language Hamburgers were re-named “liberty sandwiches”

  8. The Great Migration • Large-scale movement of African Americans in great numbers from the rural South to cities in the North. (Occurred during and after WWI) • From 1910-1940, 1.75 million black people left the South

  9. Reasons to Migrate North • Boll weevils (beetles) had infected cotton fields all over the South • 1,000s of jobs in railroads, meatpacking plants, and auto factories were available in the North • Jim Crow laws in the South • Better education opportunities in the North

  10. The Chicago Defender • Chicago’s black newspaper, the Defender, encouraged southerners to move north • The Defender was distributed by railroad all over the South • In defense of Chicago’s cold winters: “To die from the bite of frost is far more glorious than that of the mob”

  11. States in blue had the ten largest net gains of Af-Ams.States in red had the ten largest net losses.

  12. Migration of the Negro, by Jacob Lawrence

  13. Black Neighborhoods • Wary of white hostility in the South, Af-Am migrants preferred to live among settled black people in Northern cities. • Often found family & friends who had preceded them north • Harlem in NYC, Chicago’s South Side, Paradise Valley in Detroit, & Cleveland’s East Side

  14. Homework • Read Ch 11, Sn 3 (pgs 388-395), Answer questions 1 and 2 on page 395 • Quiz on the 50 States this Friday! (8/19)

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