True or False

_______1. The longest war in American history was fought without a draft.
______ 2. The Continental Congress allowed George Washington to draft Americans into service.
_______ 3. Plantation owners with a certain amount of slaves did not have to serve in the military during the Civil War.
________ 4. The New York Draft Riots were a peaceful protest against the draft.
_________ 5. Wilson started to call the draft the “selective service.”
_________ 6. World War II saw 50 million men register for the draft with 10 million draftees serving.
_________ 7. The majority of the nation was opposed to the US fight in Vietnam and the draft at the beginning of the war.
_________ 8. In 1965, protesters burned their draft cards in NYC even though they knew it was a federal offense.
_________ 9. 70% of the draftees in Vietnam were from poor or working-class families.
_________ 10. African Americas represented 10% of the casualties in the early part of the war.
_________ 11. Members of the Civil Rights Movement were being drafted to go fight in Vietnam.
_________ 12. The draft argument revolves around obligation or liberty.
_________ 13. Lyndon B. Johnson lost the race for the presidency against Nixon.
_________ 14. The Nixon administration came up with a draft lottery to reduce the inequities.
_________ 15. The draft increased American troop morale and helped to strengthen the fighting force.
_________ 16. You served 13 months in Vietnam when you were drafted.
True 17. Although the draft is gone, the apparatus, or ability, is still there.