New York City Draft Riots of 1863

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History

 

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Herman W

 

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December 5, 2013

 

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University

 

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In March of 1863, a form of a stricter draft law was formed. The law required all male citizens between twenty and thirty-five and all unmarried men between thirty-five and forty-five years of age were required to join the military. A system was set up by the federal government that entered all the eligible men into a lottery...
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But there were ways of getting out of the lottery pick, either you could pay a fee of three hundred dollars which was an extremely large amount at that time, or you could pay a substitute to take your place. Blacks, who were not considered citizens, were exempt from the draft. A month after the lottery system had been set up for selecting eligible men, an antiwar newspaper article was published on the draft law...
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