New York City draft riots
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title:
New York City draft riots
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The New York City draft riots, sometimes referred to as the Manhattan draft riots and known at the time as Draft Week, were violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan, widely regarded as the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War. The riots remain the largest civil urban disturbance in American history. According to Toby Joyce, the riot represented a "civil war" within the city's Irish community, in
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1863 civil unrest protesting American Civil War conscription
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_draft_riots
date created:
2003-07-13T12:50:12Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T16:43:27Z
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