Summary[]
Riots that took place in New York after Congress passed a draft law.
Exact Definition[]
Riots that took place in New York after Congress passed new laws that drafted men into war. Lincoln sent militia to suppress the rioting. Estimates say 200 to 2000 people died, many were wounded.
Importance[]
It was a starting example of the growing rift between the wealthy class and the poorer, working class. It also shows the discontent some of America felt about the war.
Additional Information[]
Anything else--supplemental info, memory pegs, etc.
Helpful Links[]
Terms from Test 4 (Civil War and Post-War)
- Whiskey Ring
- Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address
- Sears and Roebuck
- Mugwumps
- “Robber Barons”
- Standard Oil
- Battle of Vicksburg
- Henry Clay Frick
- Horizontal integration
- Thomas Edison
- Bessemer Process
- Thomas Nast
- Gustavus Swift
- Thaddeus Stevens
- Black Codes
- Samuel Gompers
- Comstock Lode
- Haymarket Square Riot
- Tenure of Office Act
- Pinkertons
- Eugene V. Debs
- Scalawags
- Boss Tweed
- “New immigration”
- Promontory Point
- Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882
- Social Darwinism
- Gospel of Wealth
- Robert E. Lee
- Gettysburg
- Morrill Act, 1862
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Emancipation Proclamation
- John Wilkes Booth
- Appomattox Courthouse
- Sharecropping
- Sherman’s March
- Homestead Act, 1862
- 14th Amendment
- Scrip
- Freedmen’s Bureau
- Depression of 1893
- Credit Mobilier Scandal
- Compromise of 1877
- Kickbacks