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Who could defer conscription?

everyone eccept for royalty and Trent berry


Why did people in the North oppose the draft?

Many people did not want to be drafted because they did not wish to risk their lives to prevent the southern states from seceding from the union. It's perfectly understandable.Probably, because they didn't want to get killed.


Could midgets take over the world?

If midgets (of which I am one) would need great techno weapons to take over the world because the average sized military serviceman could overcome midgets easily when it came to man for man ability. They wouldn't bother anyway.


Could wealthy Northerners pay others to fight for them during the civil war or was that only done in the South?

In the north,a man could avoid conscription by hiring a substitute.This practice was unheard of for the most part in the south. In southern culture of the period,men had a very martial attitude.Most southern soldiers were small farmers,and had a very strong opinion of what a man's duties were to his nation and his family. To them,the idea of getting someone else to do their duty for them was hateful,and not a practice to engage in. This information can be found in "The South Was Right" by James and Walter Kennedy and also the US Library of Congress.


How can Vietnam be described as the poor man's war?

It can be referred to as the "Poor Man's War" because mostly the poor or working class men were drafted in. The college attending men who would normally be drafted in were exempt, as well as men who were sons of politicians and such. There were many ways to get around the draft but the people who could not get around it ended up being the poor and working class men of the country.

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If a man owned more then 20 negros what could he do?

A man that owned 20 or more slaves was exempt from the Confederate Conscription Act of 1862 and therefore did not have to enter the army if he did not want to. This also applied to the overseer of plantations with more than 20 slaves if they held the position prior to April 16, 1862.See the following links.


Who could defer conscription?

everyone eccept for royalty and Trent berry


What was the bill that Abraham Lincoln signed that let the rich be exempt from the civil war?

The Enrollment Act of 1863, sometimes called the Conscription Act or the Draft Act. It contained a provision that a man who was drafted could get out of it by either hiring someonem else to serve in his place, or by paying a $300 fee (which is in the neighborhood of $10,000 in today's money).


What were the effects conscription had on Australia in 1916?

There was no conscription that could force a man to serve overseas. and Australians voted no on this in 1916 and again in 1917. However military training for Australian men aged 18 to 60 had been compulsory since 1911.


Why did people want conscription for World War 1 in Australia?

People in Australia wanted conscription because many of them had relatives or friends in the front line. They new that if more people enlisted their friends would be safer, but the amount of people enlisting had dropped once the excitement of the start of the died. These people could only see conscription as the only answer to secure safety. The Prime Minster Hughes wanted conscription because he knew that there weren't enough people. He said "We must put forward all our strength. The more Australia sends to the front the less the danger will be to each man. Not only victory, but safety belongs to the big battalions...".


What is the term that describes a policy of forcing all young healthy man to fight for there country?

Conscription.


Why did conscription make people angry on both sides of the US Civil War?

Conscription had never been necessary in the US until the Civil War. Each set of draft laws, whether in the South or the North angered many people. One large reason for this were so-called loop holes whereby a man could escape the drafts by paying the governments or finding another man to take one's place.


How did men avoid the union draft during the Civil War?

Under the Draft Act of 1863, it was legal to hire a "substitute" who had not been drafted. A man could also pay $300 (a large sum at the time) to avoid conscription.


What are descriptors?

"Conscripts" during the Vietnam War were constripted men for military duty. Conscription is another word for "Draft." During the Viet War, a "drafted man" was a "conscripted man."


Why did the us government introduce conscription in world war 2?

Because they realized that they wouldn't have the man-power they needed to fight on multiple fronts with a volunteer only military. Compulsory Military Service wasn't discontinued by the US until 1973.


What was the French reaction on conscription on crisis?

yo you dont know the ans comeon man tbh i dont even know the ans so you tell me the ans.,


Was Robert pershing wadlow the tallest man in the world?

To the public. There could have been taller people in 3rd world countries.