Passage: On April 6, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson, recently sworn into a second term of office for which he had run behind the slogan "He Kept Us Out of War," appeared between a joint session of Congress to ask for a declaration of war against Imperial Germany. Congress readily obliged the President's request, voting to declare war on Germany by a margin of 373-50 in the House and 82-6 in the Senate. This decision of the United States government to enter World War I was backed up with additional legislation imposing military conscription in America to staff the nation's wartime Army and Navy. On May 18, 1917, a draft bill became law. The bill called for all eligible young men nationwide to register for the draft on a single day — June 5, 1917. While isolated hotspots of anti-conscription activity sprang up in some urban centers, the registration process was generally an orderly affair, with the vast majority of young American men accepting their fate with what has been characterized as "a calm resignation." On July 20, 1917, a blindfolded Newton D. Baker, the Wilson administration's Secretary of War, drew numbers choosing certain registered young men for mandatory military service. Opponents of American participation in the war continued their efforts to change the country's course, holding meetings and distributing pamphlets. Among the leading organized forces in opposition to conscription and the war was the Socialist Party of America, which at its April 1917 National Convention had declared its "unalterable opposition" to the war and urged the workers of the world to "refuse support to the governments in their wars.".
How many days after all young men nationwide had to register for the draft did Newton D. Baker draw numbers blindfolded choosing young men for military service? How many days after the draft bill became a law did all eligible young men nationwide have to register? How many days after the draft bill became law were men supposed to register? How many days after the draft registration were numbers drawn to send men to war? How many days did American men have to register for the draft? How many days passed between the first registration of young men for the draft and Newton D. Baker drawing numbers for mandatory service? How many days passed between the passage of the draft bill and the registration of all eligible young men nationwide? How many members of Congress voted against the declaration of war? How many members of Congress voted for the declaration of war? How many months did these events span? How many months passed between the appearance of Woodrow Wilson before Congress and the initiation of the draft? How many more House members voted for the war resolution than against it? How many more House members voted to go to war than opposed it? How many more members of the house voted to go to war than opposed it? How many more senators voted for the war resolution than against it? How many more votes in the house were in agreement to declare war against Imperial Germany compared to those who disagreed? How many more votes were there for a declaration of war on Germany than against it? How many total votes were there in the Senate? How many votes did the draft bill pass by in the House? How many votes did the draft bill pass by in the Senate? How widespread was resistance to the conscription upon the introduction of the new law? What did young American men sign up for and were calmly resigned to doing, having accepted their fate? What event happened first, Wilson being sword into a second term of office, or the draft bill becoming law? What was the position of the person who drew the numbers for the draft?