TCI 23: The Course and Conduct of World War I
Across
- 4. A law passed by Congress in 1918 to make it illegal to say anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the government or the war effort.
- 6. A certificate issued by a government or company that promises to pay back borrowed money at a fixed rate of interest on a specific date.
- 7. Conduct that conveys a message without the use of words.
- 9. The use of spying to gather information.
- 12. A person who opposes war for religious or moral reasons and therefore refuses to serve in the armed forces.
- 13. A law passed by Congress in 1917 to make it illegal to spy, interfere with government foreign policy, or resist the military draft.
- 14. A person who opposes all wars, usually on moral or religious grounds.
Down
- 1. A government agency created by President Woodrow Wilson in 1917, during World War I, to promote pro-war propaganda to the American public.
- 2. Beginning during World War I, the mass movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North and Midwest to take jobs in industry.
- 3. An organization, established by a group of pacifist women in 1915 in response to World War I, that called for arms limitations and mediation to take the place of combat in Europe.
- 5. A government-issued bond sold during World War I to raise money for the Allied war effort.
- 8. The 1919 Supreme Court case that declared Charles Schenck's propaganda efforts against the military draft were illegal under the Espionage Act of 1918 and were not protected by his First Amendment right to freedom of speech.
- 10. To organize people or resources for action, such as war.
- 11. A nickname for members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), an anticapitalist labor organization founded in 1905.