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Both the Union and the Confederacy had laws that allowed some people to avoid the draft. In the Union, someone could pay $300 to avoid being drafted. In the Confederacy, a man could avoid being drafted if he owned 20 or more enslaved people. Which group of people would most likely have opposed these draft laws?

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Poor white Northerners and Southerners would have opposed those laws.

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They were too poor to pay three-hundred dollars or to own twenty or more slaves.

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