Question

The U.S. Army saw an increase in soldiers due to the Selective Service Act. What pair of numbers reflects the number of soldiers before and after the Selective Service Act was implemented

Answer 1

The number of soldiers before the act was about 300000 while after the act  they were about 4.8 million

The Selective Service Act

The Selective Service Act of (enacted May 18, 1917) was drafted by then-Captain (later Brigadier General) Hugh S. Johnson during the World War I. This act allowed the United States federal government to increase the number of soldiers through conscription.

In 1917 the Army had only around 121,000 soldiers and National Guard having 181,000. As result of the act, two million men volunteered and 2.8 million had been drafted.

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Answer 2

The pair of numbers which reflects the number of soldiers after the Selective Service Act was implemented is 2.8 million men in 2 years.

What is the Selective Service Act?

This refers to the draft act which allowed the United States government to recruit soldiers within its ranks for WWI through conscription.

With this in mind, we can see that this Selective Service Act helped to abolish the much criticised bounty system which was previously in use and recruited men heavily into the military under the administration of President Wilson Woodrow.

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