They protested the draft.
Northern Abolitionists did not react favorably to the Fugitive Slave Act. This is because it supported the cause they were against.
Protests, draft card burning, mass arrests, and more draft riots (plus escapes to Canada).
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The most noted reaction was the 3-day draft riots in NY in 1863, The riots were only partially due to the draft but also triggered by the Emancipation Proclamation and the resulting fear that blacks would more into NY and take jobs away from the poor whites. A dubious feature of the draft was that a man could pay $300 and avoid it. The rioters said that slaves sold for $1000 plus , but they were only worth $300.
They were sad.
Lincoln, by openly deciding to resupply the fort, provoked the South into a rash attack. After the fort fell to Southern attack, public opinion widely favored war with the Confederacy. On April 15, three days after the surrender of the fort, Lincoln called on Northern states to provide troops to "protect the Union." While many felt that Lincoln had made a miscalculation, others saw his actions as deliberately designed to cause the eruption of hostilities, with a Northern takeover of the South being the only solution to his earlier analogy of the US as "a house divided" by the institution of slavery.
In the south, white reacted to the proclamation with rage.
The people from the northern and southern states acted very happy with it
The slaves tried to resist the northern soldiers descending upon their plantations.
The US was only in WWI for a little over 1 year (1917-1918). By the time anyone wanted to make a big scene on the military draft...the war was over.
with overt protests and criticism against the segregated draft and military service