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	New York Draft Riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /HomeFront/newyorkdraftriots.html (356 words)

	The New York City Draft Riots of 1863
		New York City during the summer of 1863 was a tinder box set to explode at any moment.
		The riot began four hours before the Ninth District draft was set to commence which was to be at 10:30 that morning.
		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.
	members.tripod.com /~Chesnutmorgan/draft.html (2886 words)

	NEW YORK
		New York City emerged from World War II as the unquestioned leading city of the world, with Wall Street leading America's emergence as the world's dominant economic power, the United Nations headquarters (built in Manhattan in 1952) emphasizing its political influence, and the rise of Abstract Expressionism displacing Paris as center of the art world.
		New York City is located at the center of the BosWash megalopolis, 218 miles (350 km) driving distance from Boston and 220 miles (353 km) from Washington, D.C. The city's total area is 468.9 square miles (1,214.4 km²), of which 35.31% is water.
		New York City is a major center for international business and commerce and is one of three "command centers" for the global economy (along with Tokyo and London).
	www.solarnavigator.net /geography/new_york.htm (2752 words)

	New York Draft Riots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Regardless of the intent of the 300 dollar provision—as a means of securing some much-needed funding for the war effort or sparing the sons of the rich from serving similar to draft dodging—public perception among the middle and lower classes was that the war was now a "rich man's war".
		The New York police forces proved unable to quell the riots.
		Control of the city was not re-established until the hasty arrival of federal troops, including the 152nd New York Volunteers, the 26th Michigan Volunteers, the 27th Indiana Volunteers and 7th Regiment New York State Militia from Frederick, Maryland after a forced march.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_York_Draft_Riots (1044 words)

	NYC Draft Riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.
		New York was overtaken by a war that was pegged as a riot.
	www.assumption.edu /users/McClymer/his260/NYCDraftRiots.html (3074 words)

	New York Cop Writer - Story of Al Sheppard's ten years assigned to the NYPD Emergency Service Unit
		New York Volunteers arrived with approximately 50 men to assisted the remaining cops doing battle on the street.
		New York peace democrats had pushed for the trial to be conducted as a civilian event.
		Thus the Southern District Court of New York found that, although they were in the city at the time, and had know several Confederate agents, this was not enough proof.
	www.newyorkcopwriter.com /draft.html (4100 words)

	draft riots - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.
		John E. Wool and the New York City draft riots of 1863: a reassessment.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-draftrio.html (595 words)

	NYC Draft Riots
		The draft was renewed at 10 A.M. on Monday, but the assistant provost -marshal's office was soon attacked, demolished, and burned by a furious mob, which, after overcoming a squad of police sent against it, roamed about the city, and, frenzied by excitement and drink, committed numberless outrages.
		(Washington, 1889); Fry, New York and the Conscription of 1863 (New York, 1885) ; Barnes, The Draft Riots in New York (New York, 1863) : Nicolay and Hay, Lincoln, Vol.
		Widespread excitement pervaded Western New York, and the Anti-Masonic party was formed, casting 33,000 votes in 1828, about 70,000 in 1829, and 120,000 in 1830, though many in the latter year were anti-Jackson men, without reference to Masonry.
	www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Vote/NYC.Draft.Riots.html (988 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| America's Civil War \| Martha Derby Perry: Eyewitness to the 1863 New York City Draft Riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The wife of a bedridden Union surgeon was a horrified witness to the New York City Draft Riots of July 1863.
		The draft began as scheduled on Saturday, July 11, and New Yorkers quickly realized that the governor and the Democrats were not going to be able to prevent conscription.
		In the spring of 1863, Perry suffered a severe leg fracture in a horseback-riding accident and was transported to New York City, where he could recuperate with his wife and her family.
	www.thehistorynet.com /acw/bldraftriots (1146 words)

	Anti-Lincoln Gangs of New York by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
		Martin Scorcese’s new movie, "The Gangs of New York," is remarkable in that it accurately portrays the New York City working class’s violent opposition to the Lincoln administration during the War for Southern Independence.
		New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley, who had become a Republican Party mouthpiece, is shown running for his life from a dinner party at a palace-like residence in the good part of town as the draft protesters break the windows and loot the house.
		Since Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation had recently declared emancipation to be a purpose of the war, the draft protesters vented their hatred for Lincoln and his war on the hapless fl people of New York City.
	www.lewrockwell.com /dilorenzo/dilorenzo36.html (913 words)

	New York Draft Riots biography .ms (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.
		In July of 1863, antiwar newspapers in New York City began to inflame their readers (largely working class and white) against fighting for the emancipation of fls.
		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.
	new-york-draft-riot.biography.ms.cob-web.org:8888 (464 words)

	New York Draft Riots (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.
		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.
	new-york-draft-riots.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (502 words)

	Draft Riots in New York
		The South was the first to employ the draft, followed by the North.
		Once they were called, draftees had the opportunity to either pay a commutation fee of $300 for this draft, or hire replacements that exempted them for the entire war.
		Over the course of the riots, Blacks were often the target of many rioters.
	www.multied.com /AfiricanAmerican/DraftRiots.html (114 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for draft riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		draft riots DRAFT RIOTS [draft riots] in the American Civil War, mob action to protest unfair Union conscription.
		Conscription was established (1863) in the U.S. Civil War, but proved unpopular (see draft riots).
		New York NEW YORK [New York] city (1990 pop.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/52559.html (685 words)

	REUNION: A Musical Epic in Miniature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		And with the draft threatening to pull more Irish from their jobs and homes, it didn't take long for many to see the fl labor force as a direct threat to survival.
		The new draft law required each state to provide a set quota of recruits, and Washington didn't much care how the governors got them.
		Spurred by anti-war Democrats fanning their hostility toward fls, many New York Irish came to the conclusion that they were providing the raw material for the draft-and-bounty, carrot-and-stick system.
	www.civilwarmusical.com /draftriots.html (679 words)

	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 Civil War and the rise of the Republican Party and Lincoln to power indicated to New York's largely Democratic white workers a reversal of power in the nation; fl labor competition indicated a reversal of fortunes in New York City itself.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/317749.html (2411 words)

	Meyers- New York City Course
		Draft Riot on Broadway, The New York Illustrated News, August 8, 1863
		We have had great riots in New York to-day and they are still in progress.
		Just as we were expecting the mob to come howling along, a person came in with a confidential message from a Catholic priest, that Gov. Seymour had taken the responsibility of stopping the draft, and the chief rioters were to be informed of this measure.
	www.mapsites.net /gotham/DBQs/DraftRiotsDBQ.html (1720 words)

	NYC Draft Riot Lesson
		http://www.vny.cuny.edu/draftriots/Intro/draft_riot_intro_set.html, offers a detailed narrative about the Draft Riots that broke out in New York City in July 1863 to protest a provision in the recently passed Union draft law that permitted wealthy individuals to escape their military obligation by finding a substitute or paying $300.
		Begin this activity by going to the Draft Riots website and read through the description of events over the course of the four days between the outbreak of the riots and the arrival of federal troops that brought the crowds under control.
		This caused many of the citizens of New York City to be afraid.
	ctah.binghamton.edu /nycdraft.html (594 words)

	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.
		By the time the names of the first draftees were drawn in New York City on July 11, reports about the carnage of Gettysburg had been published in city papers.
		The number killed or wounded during the riot is unknown, but estimates range from two dozen to nearly 100.
	www.civilwarhome.com /draftriots.htm (450 words)

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		The undersigned, an Executive Committee appointed at a large and influential meeting of the Merchants of New York, to dispense the funds contributed by them in aid of the colored sufferers by the late riot, have been instructed by the General Committee to address their fellow-citizens in relation to the objects of their care.
		At the time of the riots he was driven, with his family,from his home and was obliged to take refuge in the salt meadows back of Jersey City, where he remained for ten days, subsisting on such articles of food as could be obtained.
		A woman who was crippled at the riot in Brooklyn in the Summer 1862 was driven from her residence in Elizabeth street by a band of rowdy boys, who broke the windows of her house and threatened to put it to the torch.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/2691/nyr/report.html (6071 words)

	Mr. Edward S. Sanford Official Report (OR) For The New York Draft Riots
		In brief, the city of New York is to-night at the mercy of a mob, whether organized or improvised, I am unable to say.
		Advices from all quarters indicate that resistance to the draft will be made the pretext for rioting in nearly every large town in the country.
		SIR: The plunder rioting is suppressed for the present, but there are strong indications of a formidable and widespread organization to resist the taking away of conscripts under the draft.
	www.civilwarhome.com /essanfordor.htm (2401 words)

	Amazon.com: The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Along the way, he offers new perspectives on a wide range of topics: Civil War society and politics, patterns of race, ethnic and class relations, the rise of organized labor, styles of leadership, philanthropy and reform, strains of individualism, and the rise of machine politics in Boss Tweed's Tammany regime.
		An in-depth study of one of the most troubling and least understood crises in American history, The New York City Draft Riots is the first book to reveal the broader political and historical context--the complex of social, cultural and political relations--that made the bloody events of July 1863 possible.
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	www.amazon.com /New-York-City-Draft-Riots/dp/0195071301 (2336 words)

	Review: Gangs of New York
		The draft and the payment of substitutes is also dealt with, with the growing anger of the poor who can't buy their way out of the war.
		Then--whammy--comes the Draft Riots with its mass murders and lynchings of fls in New York.
		While the Draft Riots--which were well done--were the part we were actually interested in seeing from the start of the movie, it really had nothing to do with the entire preceding two hours of movie plot.
	www.civilwarstlouis.com /Reviews/gangsofnewyork.htm (773 words)

	draft riots — Infoplease.com
		Los Angeles zoot: race "riot," the pachuco, and fl music culture.
		In the Eyes of the Beholder: Discourses of a Peasant Riot in Java.
		Thinking straight about immigration; many won't acknowledge the downside or think about the myths until riots occur.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0816049.html (611 words)

	NYC Draft Riots \| MetaFilter
		June 6, 2005 10:13 AM The New York City Draft Riots: "As a hot and muggy Monday morning dawned on July 13, 1863, a large crowd of New York working people moved uptown, gathering workers from workshops and factories along the way...
		There was a similar riot in Detroit that summer, but the New York one got all the press.
		Good book on this subject is "The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War" by Iver Bernstein.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/42571 (770 words)

	Teaching American History - New York Draft Riots of 1863 Menu
		NYC Draft Riots Lesson Plan with unit scoring rubric.
		Student Handout B: - NYC Draft Riots: A Result of Mounting Tensions.
		Student Handout C: - Federal Conscription and the New York City Draft Riots.
	www.sonoma.edu /tah/lessons/civilwar/riotsmenu.html (98 words)

	Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events:1860-1869
		In a speech at the Cooper Institute in New York, Abraham Lincoln attacks slavery and insists that the Federal government has "the power of restraining the extension of the institution."
		Draft riots erupt in New York City as a predominantly Irish-American mob protests the drawing of names on July 11 under the Conscription Act.
		The Galaxy (New York), 1866-1878, was founded to counter the limitations of The Atlantic Monthly.
	www.wsu.edu /~campbelld/amlit/1860.htm (1610 words)

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