 This was deemed to be inadequate, so age ranges were increased and exemptions reduced, and so by the end of 1918 this increased to 24 million men that were registered with nearly 3 million inducted into the military services, with little of the resistance that characterized the Civil War, thanks to a well-received campaign by the government to increase support for the war, and shut down newspapers and magazines that published articles against the war.The draft was universal and included blacks on the same terms as whites, although they served in different units.In all 367,710 black Americans were drafted (13.0% of the total), compared to 2,442,586 white (86.9%).