Question

Jeffrey is factory worker in the North who recently has been drafted into the army. Why is he most likely to believe the Civil War is a "rich man's war, but a poor man's fight"?

A) His boss paid the government money to avoid the draft.
B) His boss wants to give Jeffrey's job to his female cousin when he leaves.
C) His boss did not tell the government Jeffrey was needed in the factory and should be allowed to stay.
D) All answers are correct.

Answer 1

The most likely answe here would be A - his boss paid the government money to avoid the draft.

Often in wars, people who owned factories were able to pay their way out of a draft and had normal workers and people of low social class, that had to actually fight themselves because they didn't have enough money to pay their way out, fighting for them. Hence the saying 'rich man's war, but a poor man's fight'.