Week 2 Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation

Question 1

Anti Black Mob Violence in the North

Answer 1

Based on a long tradition of racial friction, often sparked by competition over
jobs and housing

Question 2

what was the 1863 federal draft law?

Answer 2

established the first national draft system and required registration by every male citizen and immigrant who had applied for citizenship between the ages of 20 and 45.

Question 3

Happened during the 1863 New York draft riots?

Answer 3

occurred in July 1863, when the anger of working-class New Yorkers over a new federal draft law during the Civil War sparked five days of some of the bloodiest and most destructive rioting in U.S. history. Hundreds of people were killed, many more seriously injured, and Black New Yorkers were often the target of the rioters’ violence.