In the early 1900’s the United States was growing in many ways. There were great inventions from the Tender Teens that had come about that lead up to the Great War, which is also known as World War 1. This war began in 1914 and brought a various amount of impacts to America. There were political hardships that came about by North America’s President Woodrow Wilson and the government, there were social impacts that were a result of the war, and there were money issues that affected our economy. But what these things really affected was the United States Homefront. As I said before the President during World War 1 was Woodrow Wilson. He was an idealist and a pacifist, meaning he didn’t really believe that war was the right way to go when having
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It wasn’t the fact that there wasn’t enough money to go around, it was the fact that money was needed to pay for the war. As I stated before there were many factors that helped basically raise money for the war. The bake sales that the women had were to help fund new weapons, along with people saving the fuel. Multiple factors like the war bonds, the schools, the days when people wouldn’t eat wheat or meat. It was all for a sufficent reason which was to protect the homefront and make sure all the soldiers were okay. We had already lost our ship; the Lucitania, due to an explosion that ended up killing hundreds of people. Everything they had on the ship was basically money because it cost to make weapons. After lossing money, it’s necessary for you to go out and make it back somehow and that’s exactly what the homefront was for. (Document 4) An African American miner during the war was looking to make money by moving out of his home state of New Orleans up to Chicago in 1917. He was looking for a safe way to help support his family and asked the Chicago Defender if he could somehow join the war. This was a well-educated man who was inexperienced. All he wanted to do was leave the South. Money usually is always a factor no matter who, what, when, or
It wasn’t the fact that there wasn’t enough money to go around, it was the fact that money was needed to pay for the war. As I stated before there were many factors that helped basically raise money for the war. The bake sales that the women had were to help fund new weapons, along with people saving the fuel. Multiple factors like the war bonds, the schools, the days when people wouldn’t eat wheat or meat. It was all for a sufficent reason which was to protect the homefront and make sure all the soldiers were okay. We had already lost our ship; the Lucitania, due to an explosion that ended up killing hundreds of people. Everything they had on the ship was basically money because it cost to make weapons. After lossing money, it’s necessary for you to go out and make it back somehow and that’s exactly what the homefront was for. (Document 4) An African American miner during the war was looking to make money by moving out of his home state of New Orleans up to Chicago in 1917. He was looking for a safe way to help support his family and asked the Chicago Defender if he could somehow join the war. This was a well-educated man who was inexperienced. All he wanted to do was leave the South. Money usually is always a factor no matter who, what, when, or