On January 7, 1839, members of the French Académie des Sciences were shown products of an invention that would forever change the nature of visual representation: photography. The astonishingly precise pictures they saw were the work of Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787–1851), a Romantic painter<span> and printmaker most famous until then as the proprietor of the Diorama, a popular Parisian spectacle featuring theatrical painting and lighting effects. Each daguerreotype (as Daguerre dubbed his invention) was a one-of-a-kind image on a highly polished, silver-plated sheet of copper.</span>
Yes it violated civil rights to great extent..The Selective Service Act of 1917 was the official name of the military
draft signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson following the United
States’ entry into World War I. It authorized the federal government to
expand the American armed services through conscription and was
responsible for drafting approximately 2.8 million men into the U.S.
military by November 1918.
