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-      As the war went on along the city, some politicians and newspapers kept warning the working class about how people with jobs would get their jobs taken away from the formerly enslaved people, and many of these workers were afraid. They didn't want their careers to be taken away from them ("New York City Divided Pre Civil War " Paragraph 5  ).

-      Then Abraham Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, which made many workers upset and ended up leading the workers to protest on how they should not lose their jobs due to the formerly enslaved people("New York City Divided Pre Civil War " Paragraph 6 and 7).

-      This had led to the decision of Abraham Lincoln for the workers, soldiers, and officers and stated that he would not abolish slavery.

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- Leslie Harris https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/317749.html&title=The+New+York+City+Draft+Riots+of+1863&desc=

- Euell Nielsen https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/new-york-city-draft-riots-1863/.

- “NY Draft Riots.”  https://virtualny.ashp.cuny.edu/draftriots/Intro/draft_riot_intro_2.html.

"When and Where the Event took Place" -History.com
https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/draft-riots

Harris, Leslie M. “The New York City Draft Riots of 1863.” The New York City Draft Riots of 1863, https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/317749.html&title=The+New+York+City+Draft+Riots+of+1863&desc=.

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-The reason why this event is important is because this deals with basic human rights.

-The emancipation proclamation became a key factor in this event.

-The enactment of the Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863 capped two years of increasing support for emancipation in New York City.

- Republicans tried to keep abolitionists from taking the lead in New York's antislavery politics during the early years of the war.

- In March 1863, a lot of things were stirred because of the form of a stricter federal draft law.

-On Saturday, July 11, 1863, the first lottery of the conscription law had taken placed and because of this for twenty-four hours the city remained quiet.

-On Monday, July 13, 1863, between 6 and 7 A.M., a total of five days of just a series of horrible events caused mayhem and bloodshed which would be known as the Civil War Draft Riots which had now begun.

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African Americans weren't the only ones who were affected. Many irish people was affected because they stood up for basic human rights.

"The Irish man who castigated the mob for not helping the black children was not the only white person punished by rioters for seeming overly sympathetic to blacks."

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The increasing support for the abolitionists and for emancipation led to anxiety among New York's white proslavery supporters of the Democratic Party, particularly the Irish.

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Stemmed from the introduction/creation of the Emancipation Proclamation brought by Abraham Lincolin, which emancipated slaves. This was a message that meant the war was being fought on behalf of black freedom and equality.

In March 1863, a draft was initiated. All male citizens between twenty and thirty-five and all unmarried men between thirty-five and forty-five years of age were subject to military duty. Unless however, you paid a certain sum to avoid the draft.

The rich were able to afford the exemption fine, while the disenfranchised and poor white men(in New York City were often Irish), were forced to enlist because they were frequently the sole source of income for their families.

The anti-black violence was driven by the resentment that the Irish would have to compete with “freedpeople” for jobs in the city now that the Union had embraced emancipation. These people believed African Americans were somehow gaining superiority/leverage over the white man.

Once the riots began, rioters' mainly targeted only military and governmental buildings. Others attacked only those individuals who interfered with them. However, as the riot progressed, some of the rioters had turned to attacks on black people, and on things symbolic of black political, economic, and social power.

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- poor white men were the main culprits of the Draft. They were mainly Irish and German men as many of them immigrated to the US due to the Potato famine in the 1840s. African Americans weren't considered citizens, so therefore were not part of the draft
- "All male citizens between twenty and thirty-five and all unmarried men between thirty-five and forty-five years of age were subject to military duty"
- wealthy white men were able to pay a $300 computation fee, which created tension between the higher and lower class
- Military and governmental buildings were initially targeted, in order to show the unfairness of the draft
- The volunteer firefighters from Engine Co. were the most violent ones
- African Americans along with white families who protected them and abolitionists became the main targets of the Riot
- Colored Orphan Asylum
- Horace Greeley's "New York Daily Tribune", a republican newspaper that supported the Civil War

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- The event took place from July 11  to July 16, 1983 (New York Draft Begins).

- During this time forty percent of all goods were all from cotton; all goods were exported and transported to city ports(New York Draft Begins).

- Slavery was still promoted in the cities, and that brought out a conflict between the working class and the wealthy(New York Draft Begins).

- Which brought a war among
the people in New York City.

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-The draft riots of 1863 took place in New York, Manhattan.

-There were violent disturbances in Manhattan (Lower part) because of the white- working-class discontent with new laws passed by congress that year drafted men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War ("New York Draft Begins" Paragraph 11 ).

-The riots during this time remained the most significant civil and most racially charged disturbance in American History("New York Draft Begins" Paragraph 13 ).

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- instead of being a riot for the draft, it became an attack against race. The lower class white men set fire to buildings that symbolized peace for Black people
- ties in with American Caste System, white people in the lower caste were forced to go to war while the higher class could pay out of it.
- Also showed the lower class resentment of freed Black people due to job competition in the city. Lower class white workers felt threatened by Black people who were gaining more power.
- Divide between black people and white people. When trying to rebuild the orphanage, they had to relocate as neighboring property owners wanted them to leave. Many black families also left the city, and the ones who stayed found support in recovering from the destruction of the riots such as the "Union League Club" and the "Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People" (Harris)

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The Conscription Law

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Irish and German Immigration

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"A depiction of the Draft Riots in 1863"(The New York Times)

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