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3.06 War at Home Assessment - Coggle Diagram
3.06 War at Home Assessment
Hispanic Americans:
1.How was this group treated by the U.S government during World War I ?
The government ignored constitutional principles when it came to discrimination against Hispanic Americans were discriminated because of their race and language.
Dissenters(Alvaro López)
How was this group treated by other Americans during World War I?
Radicals, including socialists, anarchists, and syndicalists, argued that capitalism, imperialism, and the competition for markets caused the war.
How did the group react to the way they were treated?
Pacifists formed a number of organizations to oppose the conflict and the preparedness campaign.
How was this group treated by the U.S government during World War I?
The government used the Espionage Act to convict many antiwar dissidents
How did World War I change the way of life for this group in the United States?
dissenters American citizens were subject to systematic repression.
Marcelo Detlefsen
Jewsh Americans
How was this group treated by other Americans during World War I?
Jewish Americans were always the most affected sector of segregated Americans with the Native Americans, they were not killed like in Germany, but they were criticized for their "strange believings."
How did the group react to the way they were treated?
They didn´t expect too much, because the majority of these Jewish came from Asia and Europe as emigrants, they were more than pleased that they could fight on the War.
How was this group treated by the U.S government during World War I?
People were not segregated by causes by religion or ethnicity, except to African Americans, nearly 250,000 American Jewsihs fought on WW1, but they obviously didn´t made the same activities as a normal American.
How did World War I change the way of life for this group in the United States?
It was difficult because for them because they were starting to live a new life, on a new country, with new jobs; everything was different, the only real rule that they had was to participate on the war, and they made it.
Asian Americans
How was this group treated by other Americans during World War I?
People used to think strangelly about this gruop, some people discriminated them but it was totally diffent with African Americans, they were abused, discriminated, and segregated, so basically Asians were segregated but not as much as Amercians did with African Americans.
How did the group react to the way they were treated?
This gruop came to America when WW1 started because they where not well treated in their native country, they were very glad that they where well recieved and that is why they dind´t complain about it, they were just happy on America.
How was this group treated by the U.S government during World War I?
Normally, most of the Jewish people who came to the United States where also Asian Americans, but if they were Asian they had disadvantages because they were treated as Afrcan Americans, basically Asian Americans collaborate con the jobs of "non-white" people.
How did World War I change the way of life for this group in the United States?
Traditions and Habits in general are very different in America comparing it to Asia, and probably it was the most difficlt part for Asian Americans to get used to, because food is very different as an exampe. They where required to participate in War and they could probably lost some family, and leave other on Asia.
Katherine Mena
African Americans
How was this group treated by the U.S government during World War I?
Blacks were able to serve in all branches of the Army except for the aviation units. The government made no provision for military training of black officers and soon created segregated training camps for that purpose.
How was this group treated by other Americans during World War I?
Many African Americans living in these cities faced intense discrimination. Race riots between black and white citizens erupted in more than 26 northern cities during this period.
How did the group react to the way they were treated?
Despite some discrimination most African Americans agreed that life in the North was much better than life in the South.
How did World War I change the way of life for this group in the United States?
In the course of their participation in the war effort, many black Americans cultivated a heightened self-awareness, racial pride, and responded with a more assertive willingness to turn anger over racial discrimination into political action.
German Americans
How was this group treated by the U.S government during World War I?
The government ignored constitutional principles when it came to discrimination against German Americans. Many american's refused to play german music, vandalized german shops, renamed german streets and made them more "Americanized".
How was this group treated by other Americans during World War I?
German-language books were burned, and Americans who spoke German were threatened with violence or boycotts. German-language classes, until then a common part of the public-school curriculum, were discontinued and, in many areas, outlawed entirely.
How did the group react to the way they were treated?
They tried to become fully assimilated into the American society. They did so by changing their names, learning to speak English, and following american custom's.
How did World War I change the way of life for this group in the United States?
German Stores were vandalized. German goods were burned. Some German Americans were killed, murder tolerated.
2.How was this group treated by other Americans during World War I?
They joined the armed forces but were paid little to no attention. They were ridiculed by english-speaking soldiers because they couldn't speak english well. That had a big influence on how they were treated at the home front.
How did the group react to the way they were treated?
Some still contributed to the war and other's refused to sign up for the draft because they didn't like to be considered second-class. The one thing that changed was not only were hispanic's receiving prejudice from americans but also from hispanic themselves.
Andrea Osorio