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Congress Issues the Conscription Act
Between July 13 and 16, 1863, the largest riots the United States had yet seen shook New York City. In the so-called Civil War draft riots, the city's poor white working people, many of them Irish immigrants, bloodily protested the federally-imposed [...]
Item Type: Laws/Court Cases
Historical Era: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)