AMERICANS ON THE HOMEFRONT HELPED WIN WORLD I
NAME:
1.Enlist or support relatives who are fighting
Title of document & Date published: Draft Card May 19 1917
Type of document & purpose:
Document listing men that have been drafted
Explain how the document represents this patriotic activity.
(describe what is in the document)
Depicts people enlisting
4.Volunteer skills or time to help the nation or soldiers
Title of document & Date published: Patriotic Old Women
1918
Type of document & purpose:
Document Old Women making American flags
Explain how the document represents this patriotic activity.
(describe what is in the document)
These old women who just happened to be seamstresses are
making flags for the war effort
7.Save sugar for the soldiers
Title of document & Date published: Sugar Save it 1917-1919 Title of document & Date published:
Type of document & purpose:
Flyer meant to warn people to use less sugar
Explain how the document represents this patriotic activity.
(describe what is in the document)
The document is telling citizens to save sugar for soldiers and The document is telling people to use less of a specific food
offering ways to do so
2.Buy bonds from the government to help finance the war 3.Be loyal to the government and tell on those who aren't
Title of document & Date published:
You Buy Liberty Bond
Type of document & purpose:
Poster encouraging citizens to buy government bonds
Explain how the document represents this patriotic activity.
(describe what is in the document)
Tells people that they must buy bonds or risk the nations fate
5.Work in a wartime industry, even switch from your
regular job
Title of document & Date published:
Team Work 1917-1919
Type of document & purpose:
Poster to motivate people to work in a war industry
Explain how the document represents this patriotic activity.
(describe what is in the document)
Tells people their work encourages soldiers and therefore
encourages them to work in wartime industries.
8.Eat none of somethhings and less of others
Eat more corn oats and rye 1917-1919
Type of document & purpose:
Flyer telling people to eat certain foods
Explain how the document represents this patriotic activity.
(describe what is in the document)
to save it for military rations
Title of document & Date published: John Meints
Type of document & purpose: Shows a traitor tarred and
feathered for being a traitor
Explain how the document represents this patriotic activity.
(describe what is in the document)
It depicts the way people disloyal to the goverment were
punished
6.Work instead of staying at home if you're a woman
Title of document & Date published:
American Red Cross Parade, 5/21/1918
Type of document & purpose:
Image documenting female nurses in red cross parade
Explain how the document represents this patriotic activity.
(describe what is in the document)
The women here are seen taking on a stereotypically male
job and working as wartime nurses
9.Grow crops to increase the food supply
Title of document & Date published: School Children Holding
Cabbage 1917-1918
Type of document & purpose: Photo of children holding
produce grown in a war garden
Explain how the document represents this patriotic activity.
(describe what is in the document)
The document shows even children growing crops to increase
the food supply
REFLECTION: Please answer the following questions in well written paragraphs.
1. How much did Americans sacrifice on the home-front during WWI?
Americans sacrificed a lot including their food, labour, money, and time for the war efoort during WWI

2. Do citizens owe their country sacrifices? Explain your answer.

Yes they do because the purpose of a government is to help the country as a whole and citizens will have to make sacrifices for the benefit of others in their country no matter what. These
sacrifices may not need to be to the government specifically but nonetheless citizens should be ready to make sacrifices for their political ideals and values.