What impact did World War I have on Civil Liberties in the United States?
While World War I was going on, it had a major impact on Civil Liberties in the United States. The government was taking people's individual rights, freedom of speech and the right to protest was inhibited as well. Those people who showed any interference with the government or refused to military recruitment with the war would be punished by being sent to jail for twenty years or were fined with at least ten thousand dollars. Was the government right by taking people's rights and freedom or force them to do something they did not want to do, but had to because if not they would be considered going against the government. As the World War I was going on the Espionage Act came in 1917. This act prevents people from doing any speeches or protest against the government about the war would be punished. In Document 2 in the Espionage Act it says “ whoever when the United States is at war, shall willfully cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or shall willfully obstruct the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States… shall be punished by a fine …show more content…
That information that was being collected was sent to Berlin and the Germans. The information that they were getting was of people buying bonds and those bonds were being sent to the military for the war. In Document 3 in the Four Minute Man speech it says “ If the American people lend their billions now, one and all with a hip-hip-hurrah, it means that America is united and strong”. For the Government was great that people buy those bonds, but for the people it was not. The way this impacted the civil liberties was that the people’s money was being stolen. Those bonds were posters created by artist and some of them appealed to the Americans to be against the German
While World War I was going on, it had a major impact on Civil Liberties in the United States. The government was taking people's individual rights, freedom of speech and the right to protest was inhibited as well. Those people who showed any interference with the government or refused to military recruitment with the war would be punished by being sent to jail for twenty years or were fined with at least ten thousand dollars. Was the government right by taking people's rights and freedom or force them to do something they did not want to do, but had to because if not they would be considered going against the government. As the World War I was going on the Espionage Act came in 1917. This act prevents people from doing any speeches or protest against the government about the war would be punished. In Document 2 in the Espionage Act it says “ whoever when the United States is at war, shall willfully cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or shall willfully obstruct the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States… shall be punished by a fine …show more content…
That information that was being collected was sent to Berlin and the Germans. The information that they were getting was of people buying bonds and those bonds were being sent to the military for the war. In Document 3 in the Four Minute Man speech it says “ If the American people lend their billions now, one and all with a hip-hip-hurrah, it means that America is united and strong”. For the Government was great that people buy those bonds, but for the people it was not. The way this impacted the civil liberties was that the people’s money was being stolen. Those bonds were posters created by artist and some of them appealed to the Americans to be against the German