Because men 18-35 had to serve for 3yrs, later 17-50, and if he couldn't afford it, he would have to hire a substitute to serve for him.
Timbuktu was a place where ideas were shared and quickly became a center for learning.
A major progressive business reform that President Taft enacted was the "<span>breaking up large monopolies", since these monopolies were seen as being highly detrimental to the economy. </span>
Conformists are people who conform (or follow/practice) accepted behavior. Hippies were not conformist because they didn't do things that most people of the time did