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	New York Draft Riots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although the draft was universal, it was possible to pay a "commutation fee" to escape service, thereby excluding the wealthier classes from the hazards of war.
		The riots erupted after the names of the drafted men appeared in the local New York City press on July 13, shortly after the newspapers had reported the tremendous loss of life at Gettysburg.
		The Draft Riots were fictionally portrayed in the John Jakes novel On Secret Service and the Martin Scorsese film Gangs of New York, and other works.
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	The New York City Draft Riots of 1863
		The riot began four hours before the Ninth District draft was set to commence which was to be at 10:30 that morning.
		The subsequent days of the riot was made up of a majority Irish Catholics who worked as “industrious and common workers.” The riot did however contain a small number of artisans, and Germans.
		The riots occurred because of a combination of impoverished residents who were suffering economic hardship and inflation, along with built up resentment against the growing Black population, and the Republican Party.
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	New York Draft Riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The unfair draft laws caused deep resentment throughout the North, and in the summer of 1863 protests and outbreaks of violence were common in virtually every Northern state.
		The working-class Irish in New York City were particularly resentful of the draft policies that allowed the wealthy to buy their way out the draft, and they were hostile toward fls, some of whom had recently been used to replace striking Irish longshoremen.
		The burning of the draft office was the beginning of a four-day spree of looting, burning, and murder that singled out the city's fl population as the scapegoat for the country's ills.
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	New York Draft Riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The New York Draft Riots of 1863 represented protests in response to President Abraham Lincoln 's Enrollment Act of Conscription to draft men to fight in the ongoing Civil War.
		Targets of the rioters were initially draft offices and police stations, but soon spread to fl property and organizations, and white sympathizers.
		The Draft Riots were fictionally portrayed in the John Jakes novel On Secret Service and the Martin Scorcese film " Gangs of New York ", and other works.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/new_york_draft_riots (532 words)

	Encyclopedia: New York Draft Riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Riots in Newark, New Jersey Riots occur when crowds of people have gathered and are committing crimes or acts of violence.
		Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York and abbreviated NYC) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, communications, music, fashion, and culture.
		The Battle of Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863), fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as part of the Gettysburg Campaign, was possibilly the largest battle ever conducted in North America, and is generally considered to be the turning point of the American Civil War.
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	AllRefer.com - draft riots (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
		The Union Conscription Act of Mar. 3, 1863, provided that all able-bodied males between the ages of 20 and 45 were liable to military service, but a drafted man who furnished an acceptable substitute or paid the government $300 was excused.
		Meanwhile, New York troops (including the famous 7th Regiment, which had been sent to the front for the Gettysburg campaign) were rushed back, and with the aid of the police, militia, naval forces, and cadets from West Point, they succeeded in restoring order.
		The riots had inflicted property damage of $1.5 million to $2 million, and it has been estimated that total casualties ran as high as 1,000.
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	The Causes and Effects of the New York Draft Riots of 1863 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The New York Draft Riots were a culmination of the mounting economic, political, and social tensions that existed among New YorkÕs so-called melting pot of cultures.
		Finally, in a city founded upon business and capitalist principles, the draft riots were a demonstration of a cityÕs ambivalence toward war and desire for a return to the prosperous economic advantages of the status quo.
		The riots were a culmination of a class crisis and a racial crisis that resulted in an upward-directed attack against city elites and a downward attack against African-Americans.
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	New York City Draft Riots: A Result of Mounting Tensions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although New York City residents had initially supported the Civil War, the city erupted in violent riots when the federal government began enforcing the Conscription Act of 1863.
		The draft enraged many New Yorkers, particularly the Irish immigrants of the city.
		• The brutality of the draft riots provoked a wave of anti-Irish and anti-immigrant propaganda.
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	NYC Draft Riots
		The riots in New York City were the most violent and the most publicized compared to all the other riots taking place across the nation.
		The New York riots were a response to the introduction of a wartime draft, the first draft in American history.
		July 18: The rioting has been suppressed for the time being, but there are strong indications of a formidable and widespread organization to resist the taking away of conscripts under the draft.
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		Draft Riots, mob violence incited in New York City from July 13 to July 16, 1863, during the American Civil War, by opponents of conscription and...
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		1863: Hostility to the draft and fear of fls as "the cause" of the war and potential competitors in the labor market, the "New York Draft Riots" began, and...
		The Draft Riots were fictionally portrayed in the John Jakes novel 'On Secret Service ' and the Martin Scorcese film ' Gangs of New York ', among other works.
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	Draft Riots Feared: No Matter Who Wins in November, Draft Will Return
		Regardless of the outcome of next November's presidential election, the federal government will initiate a military draft in 2005, unless there is a dramatic slackening of the need for U.S. troops for the ongoing war in Iraq and for “peacekeeping” duties around the world.
		When the federal government initiates a draft to meet its military manpower needs, which it no longer can do under an all-volunteer system, something the Pentagon clearly knows, there will be an outpouring of public sentiment against it.
		Drafting means that a government program to conscript young men, and probably women, taking into account the inefficient and unworkable unisex military, is likely to cause a flap that will dwarf the Vietnam War protests, by example, and may equal the Civil War-era draft riots in New York in ferocity.
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	1863 draft riots Free Essays
		But, in the 1990’s, the riots are not fueled by politics, as they were in the 1960s, but by beer, liquor and drugs.
		The draft law otherwise known as the conscription of soldiers to serve their country, is one of the most controversial issues not only in the United States but in the entire world.Because of the history behind its past, debate has led up to present d...
		The declaration of independence, draft, is an article written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776.
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	Draft Riots
		Even in the midst of the riots, newspapers continued to call the draft unconstitutional, calling for an examination by the courts and full suspension of the draft.
		The draft was just and constitutional, and yet practical, in performing the important duty with which I am charged, of maintaining the unity and free principles of our common country.
		I am entirely aware that resistance to the draft was the first incentive to these disturbances; but in New York, as in all large centres of population, where any set of men makes a demonstration to ventilate its grievances, there will always be grouped around this party of malcontents the very worst elements of society.
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	Articles - New York Draft Riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The New York Draft Riots of 1863 initially represented protests in response to President Abraham Lincoln 's Enrollment Act of Conscription to draft men to fight in the ongoing Civil War.
		In July of 1863, antiwar newspapers in New York City began to inflame their readers (largely Irish Catholic working class and white) against fighting for the emancipation of fls.
		By the morning of the sixteenth there were nearly 4,000 federal troops in the city and the riot subsided.
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	The Draft Riots - Band page with free MP3 music downloads on SoundClick
		The Draft Riots are a rock and roll band that plays rock and roll music.
		We narrowed it down to "Boss Tweed" or " the Draft Riots" and I think it should be obvious which name we chose.
		The Draft Riots were formed in August 2001 by Michael Ball, Daniel Yagi, and Sean Swearinger.
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	Ozaukee Riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On the morning of the 12th, the draft enrollment officer, William Pors, went to the county courthouse to begin work.
		Among those arrested were several women who were described as being "the most bitter and vindictive spirit." Attorney Edward G. Ryan of Milwaukee volunteered to defend the prisoners and told the State Supreme Court that the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus by President Lincoln was unconstitutional.
		The main reason for the riots seems to have to do with the ability of rich men to pay someone else to serve their terms.
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	Letters to Seward on New York Draft Riots
		DEAR SIR: Rumor says the draft in the city of New York is suspended, and Governor Seymour intimates that it will not be resumed, and tells the people (the mob) that it is unnecessary; that volunteers can be obtained to answer the call without it.
		DEAR SIR: I have learned this week much in relation to the state of affairs in New Jersey concerning the draft, which I deem it my duty to communicate through you to the Government, to the end that we may be spared the horrors of the New York riots.
		Let the draft not be given up, but let it be baffled for a couple of weeks, and I have no apprehensions as to the result.
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	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: American History (1994): Chapter Six: Peace Democrats, Copperheads and ...
		It must be noted that a man who was drafted could buy his way out for $300, about the equivalent of an unskilled laborer's annual income at that time.
		The most significant resistance to the draft took place in New York City in the summer of 1863.
		The conjunction of the two events led to a four-day riot in which a number of fl neighborhoods, draft offices and Protestant churches were destroyed and at least 105 people killed.
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	Draft Riots 1863 - "Black Joke"
		William O. Stoddard's Volcano Under the City, an account of the draft riots published in 1887, reflects upper-class fears of working-class militancy and mob action.
		Stoddard was a staunch Republican (in 1863 he served as one of President Lincoln's private secretaries), and during the draft riots he was a member of the voluntary special police.
		Such conduct at this and other points during the riots had a direct and powerful influence upon the subsequent abolition of their entire organization and the substitution of the existing "paid" department.
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	New York Draft Riots Encyclopedia Article, History, Biography @ Local Color Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The New York Draft Riots of 1863 initially represented protests in response to
		President Abraham Lincoln 's Enrollment Act of Conscription to draft men to fight in the ongoing Civil War.
		The Draft Riots were fictionally portrayed in the John Jakes novel On Secret Service and the Martin Scorsese film
	www.alienartifacts.com /encyclopedia/New_York_Draft_Riots (717 words)

	draft riots on Encyclopedia.com
		A defective piece of legislation enforced amid great unpopularity, it provoked nationwide disturbances that were most serious in New York City, where for four days (July 13-16, 1863) there occurred large-scale, bloody riots.
		"In the midst of strange and terrible times": the New York city draft riots of 1863.
		John E. Wool and the New York City draft riots of 1863: a reassessment.
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	The New York City Draft Riots of 1863
		But in July 1863, white longshoremen took advantage of the chaos of the Draft Riots to attempt to remove all evidence of a fl and interracial social life from area near the docks.
		The Longshoreman's Association, a white labor union, patrolled the piers during the riots, insisting that "the colored people must and shall be driven to other parts of industry." But "other parts of industry," such as cartmen and hack drivers, not to mention skilled artisans, also sought to exclude fl workers.
		The rioters' actions also indicate the degree to which the sensational journalists and reformers of the 1840s and 1850s had achieved their goals of convincing whites, and particularly the Irish, that interracial socializing and marriage were evil and degrading practices.
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	Welcome to the New York Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Draft Riots dispel stereotypes of a unified North, bringing out the complexity of Civil War era society.
		In this letter, his friend and collaborator botanist John Torrey, describes the events of the draft riots as they unfolded near his home.
		The entry should be written either from the viewpoint of a rioter or a victim of the riots.
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	Draft Riots
		The decision to allow men to avoid the draft by paying $300 to hire a substitute, resulted in the accusation that this was a rich man's war and a poor man's fight.
		There was heavy loss of life in Detroit but the worst rioting took place in New York City in July, 1863.
		By the time the riot was over, nearly a 1,000 people had been killed or wounded.
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	Online-Lexikon: New York Draft Riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was not until Federal troops were called in to fire upon the rioters that order was restored.
		The exact death toll is unknown, as a result of conflicting contemporary accounts.
		The Draft Riots were fictionally portrayed in the John Jakes novel 'On Secret Service ' and the Martin Scorcese film 'Gangs of New York ', among other works.
	www.academicus.ch /en/new_york_draft_riots.html (237 words)

	Labor Competition and the New York Draft Riots of 1863 By Albon P. Man, Jr - reprinted from the "Journal of Negro ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The New York draft riots of July, 1863, had their origin largely in a fear of fl labor competition which possessed the city's, Irish unskilled workers.
		(55) During the longshore strike a month before the draft riots it was reported that three carloads of contrabands had reached Jersey City and that the Negroes then took the ferry to New York.
		(95) During the riots it was said that white workers, in driving the Negroes from the docks, were insisting that longshore jobs be held exclusively by members of the Longshoremen's Association and such other whites as they permitted upon the waterfront.
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	Draft Riots
		Although the first day passed quietly, on Sunday hundreds of men, mostly Irish and angered by the law’s provision allowing those with money to buy their way out of the draft by paying for a substitute, prepared to attack the draft offices the next morning.
		Yonkers was justly afraid the rioting would spill over into the village.
		The reason Yonkers escaped the draft riots may have been as simple as that.
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	The New York Draft Riots
		Although demonstrations took place in many Northern cities, the riots that broke out in New York City were both the most violent and the most publicized.
		The number killed or wounded during the riot is unknown, but estimates range from two dozen to nearly 100.
		In the end, the draft raised only about 150,000 troops throughout the North, about three-quarters of them substitutes, amounting to just one-fifth of the total Union force.
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