US History › Section L · The Great War and the 1920s › Topic L.3
The World War I home front
The war changed life far from the trenches. Unions, women and Black Americans found new openings, and reformers won two constitutional amendments, but many gains were partial and some were met with violence.
In this topic
- A home front in motion
- Labour's wartime bargain
- Women's work, at home and abroad
- Black Americans in uniform
- The Great Migration speeds up
- Violence and resistance
- Worked example: Du Bois and "Close Ranks"
- Prohibition becomes law
- Suffragists and the war
- Worked example: the road to the Nineteenth Amendment
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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