In which time period exactly?
They passed the Espionage and Sedition Acts which allowed the government to arrest and fine anyone speaking out against the war.
African Americans wound uP in dirTy, backbreaking, unskilled, and lowpaying occupations. These were the least desirable jobs in most industries, but the ones employers felt best suited their workers. More than eight of every ten African American men worked as unskilled laborers in foundries, in the building trades, in meat-packing companies, on the railroads, or as servants, <span>porters.</span>