Answer:
Option: enacted the first general draft in American history
Explanation:
After Abraham Lincoln became the President of America in 1860, the southerners decided to split from the North and declare themselves as the Confederate with its new currency and constitution. When the North began to interfere, the South decided to go for the war to defend slavery, which we came to be known as the Civil War.
During the Civil War, the Confederacy passes an act that became the first general draft of American citizens. The act invited for registration of males in America who wanted to fight for the cause. Between the ages of 20 and 45, all men chosen as volunteers in war.
I would say that it's because the colonists wanted to have there own nation
By the 1890's Americans were sick and tired of their 1870 and prior image of being just backwoods farmers staying at home from the world. Americans in the 1890's were conscious of the great power of American industry, wealth, inventions, natural resources and wanted to take their place among the great powers of the world. They were aware of all the great progress America had made in every field.
<span>A new political movement the progressives wanted even more progress and aimed at the future to make America 'great'. This was the motivation for the new foreign policy. Examples: kicking Spain out and taking Cuba,(1898), buying Panama and building the American Panama Canal there (1904). President Theodore Roosevelt building the 1st mighty US Navy (1901-1909).</span>
They believe to give out a helping hand to others because in there community it is the right thing to do
