A federal body created in July 1917 fixed prices, set production priorities and ordered goods standardized so that materials were not wasted. Woodrow Wilson made Bernard Baruch its chairman in March 1918. Which body was it?

Herbert Hoover ran the wartime body that raised American farm output and asked families to keep voluntary wheatless and meatless days instead of imposing rationing. Which body was it?

Created in April 1918 and co-chaired by former president William Howard Taft and Frank P. Walsh, this body settled disputes between employers and workers and backed the eight-hour day and the right to organize. Which body was it?

In December 1917 the federal government took over the running of the nation's railroads, putting Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo in charge of schedules, rates and wages. Which body operated the railroads for the government?

Between 1917 and 1919 the Treasury ran five nationwide drives that sold government bonds directly to ordinary Americans, the last of them after the fighting had ended. What were these drives called?

Harry Garfield led the body that closed many nonessential factories east of the Mississippi for several days in January 1918 and set a run of heatless Mondays to save coal. Which body was it?

A week after the United States declared war in April 1917, Wilson created a body by executive order, put the journalist George Creel in charge, and from May 1917 it published a daily government paper, the Official Bulletin. Which body?

The Espionage Act of 1917 carried a penalty of up to $10,000 and twenty years in prison. Which conduct did it make punishable?

The Sedition Act of 1918 amended the Espionage Act. What did it add to the conduct that could be punished?

The Espionage Act of 1917 handed Postmaster General Albert Burleson a power he used against socialist and radical publications, among them The Masses. What power was it?

Robert Goldstein's 1917 film The Spirit of '76 showed British soldiers attacking colonists during the American Revolution. In 1918 he was convicted of attempting to cause insubordination in the forces and sentenced to ten years. Under which law?

Victor Berger, a Socialist from Milwaukee, was convicted in January 1919 of obstructing the war effort through his newspaper and sentenced to twenty years; the House then refused to seat him. Under which law was he prosecuted?

In August 1918 a group of Russian-born radicals threw leaflets from a New York factory window attacking the sending of American troops into Russia. They were convicted and given sentences of up to twenty years. Under which law?

Schenck v. United States (1919) concerned leaflets urging drafted men to resist. Holmes asked whether words "create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent." What did that do?

Holmes wrote for the Court in 1919: "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic." What point was he making about the First Amendment?

In Schenck (1919) Holmes wrote: "When a nation is at war many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight." What did the Court hold here?

Holmes wrote in Schenck (1919): "We admit that in many places and in ordinary times the defendants in saying all that was said in the circular would have been within their constitutional rights." What does this show about the Court's reasoning?

Holmes summed up the Court's approach in Schenck (1919) with the line "It is a question of proximity and degree." What did that mean for when speech may be punished?

Between 1916 and 1919 several hundred thousand African Americans left the rural South for jobs in northern war industries. What happened in northern cities as they arrived?

In February 1917 an aluminum plant in East St. Louis, Illinois hired hundreds of African American workers, many newly arrived from the South, to replace white strikers. What followed in that city in July 1917?

With men drafted and European immigration cut off, women took wartime jobs in munitions plants and on railroads. On September 30, 1918 Wilson asked the Senate to pass the woman suffrage amendment as a war measure. What happened next?

The National War Labor Board pressed employers to accept the eight-hour day and the right to organize, while unions promised not to strike for the duration of the war. What followed between 1917 and 1919?

Place these three wartime measures in the order Congress passed them.

Put these three acts of Congress in the order they became law.

Which order lists these three measures from earliest to latest?