(A) Congress allowed women to assume combat duty in the armed forces
(B) ** The Selective Service Act of 1917 required all men between 21 and 30 to register for the draft
(C) Congress forced African-Americans to serve in the armed forces
(D) Congress offered a free education and free land to anyone willing to serve
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Concept note-1: -On May 18, 1917, Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription. The act eventually required all men between the ages of 21 to 45 to register for military service.
Concept note-2: -In order to build an adequate fighting force, Congress passed the Selective Service Act on May 18, 1917. This law required all men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military duty. By the end of the war, 2.8 million men had been drafted for service.
Concept note-3: -To that end, Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which Wilson signed into law on May 18, 1917. The act required all men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service. Within a few months, some 10 million men across the country had registered in response to the military draft.
Concept note-4: -The reason for the Selective Service Act, though, was that American men had not volunteered en masse or certainly not in the numbers needed to raise, train, and deploy an army quickly after the United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917.
Concept note-5: -What did Congress do to make sure the army had enough soldiers to fight? It enacted a military draft to compel men to serve in the army.