History of the United States I / Unit 15 USH1 2148 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Draft Riots
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The idea
On July thirteenth, eighteen sixty-three, two days after the first draft lottery, a drafted fire company commander started a riot that spread across New York.
In practice
White mobs killing Black New Yorkers and destroying an African American orphanage.
Where people slip
Federal troops ended it on the fourth day. Over a hundred died, a thousand were injured, and a fifth of the Black population fled.
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