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Unit 7: Period 7: 1890–1945

World War I: Home Front

Explain how World War I curbed free speech, fed nativism and a Red Scare, and pulled Americans, above all Black southerners, into northern cities.

Topic 7.6 · 19 min read

This lesson comes with the AP United States History plan

In this lesson

  1. 01Mobilizing a society that had no war machinery
  2. 02Free speech under wartime law
  3. 03From the war to the Red Scare
  4. 04Immigration cut off, migrants moving north
  5. 05Worked examples
  6. 06Where students lose points
  7. 07On the exam

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