The+Draft+and+Draft+riots+8

=__The Draft and Draft Riots of 1863 __= **Cause:** >
 * March 1863 stricter draft laws came into effect.
 * Now all men aged 20-25 and unmarried men aged 35 - 45 were subject to duty
 * Federal government entered all citizens into a lottery
 * Blacks were not considered citizens so they were not drafted
 * July 11, 1863 first lottery was held. Citizens were outraged
 * Riots:**
 * Civil War Draft Riots began on July 13, 1863 at 6 A.M. and continued for 5 days
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Rioters originally targeted just military and governmental buildings
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mobs attacked individuals who tried to resist
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">By the end of the first day, mobs started attacking blacks and things symbolic of black power
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">July 13, a violent mob of thousands of men, women and children attacked Colored Orphan Asylum with 233 children inside and set fire to it
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Rioters killed, harassed, and destroyed blacks' property
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Some rioters targeted men and found fun in destroying their bodies, even sexually
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">White dock workers beat and almost drowned a black man in New York
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mobs beat, kicked, stomped, stoned, and then hung people from lampposts
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Over the five days of violence eleven men were lynched
 * Effect:**
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">The riots caused hundreds of blacks to leave the city
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">By 1865, the population of blacks in New York lowered to under 10,000, its lowest since 1820[[image:http://www.authentichistory.com/civilwar/images/1863_Draft_Riots_01.jpg width="315" height="266" align="center"]]

//**Source:** __The New York City Draft Riots of 1863__// [|//http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/317749.html//]