The larger goal was uniting Americans around the war effort.
Cracking down on dissent would be a negative action in support of the larger, positive goal the government sought. The government wanted a fully united public in support of the war, and so it put out the message that that freedom of speech might have its limits in times of war.
Congress had to approve of military appointments. The War Powers Resolution was made so that the President of the United States could not commit to an armed conflict without the consent of the Congress.
Before the Industrial Revolution there were not any machinery to make products for us. They would have to instead hand sew cloth together to make clothing
