On July 17, 1862 the militia act was passed this Allowed Pres.

Lincoln to draft from states that have not filled the quota for soldiers On March 3, 1863 constriction act was passed this said that all citizens between the ages of 25 and 24 were available for the draft Man could waver the drafts with a fee $300 You could also hire someone to take your places address these were called substitutes The future Pres. Grover Cleveland used a substitute During the war Isaax made it possible for anyone to be taken into the army Irishman in New York didn't want to fight a war that would free black man and cause competition for them they were on strike When federal troops had to protect blacks at one of the docs On june 11th 1863 The draft began on July 13 Irishman and poor people came into the streets with signs reading no draft They started in Central Park where they heard speeches that criticized the draft and then they went to the draft office they burn the draft office this was the beginning of violence most riders didn't want to be drafted because they didn't want to fight for blacks so they took it out on blacks living in New York they burn the colored orphan asylum a black man was dragged from his house hung and set on fire. There was much confusion in NYC For the next three days the police could do little against the mob Then the Union Army came from Pennsylvania they killed many rioters and then kill and cleared the streets of New York After Gettysburg and the return of the union army to nyc restoring peace on July 16 The Archbishop John Hughes Received peace from the Irish mobs Gov. Seymour asked Lincoln To stop the draft but he didn't Lincoln asked William Tweed to conduct the next draft in August When the next draft was held on August 19 10,000 soldiers patrolled the streets in the draft was without incident modern law-enforcement was developed in New York from after the draft All in all the draft lasted six days and there were 11 blacks eight soldiers two policemen 84 rioters killed Then in 1978 Partin Scorsese conceived the film begins of New York you redrill plan to cast Dan Aykroyd as Amsterdam vallon (the Irishman) And John Belushi as Bill the Butcher (the American) Eventually Leonardo DiCaprio was cast as Amsterdam and then Daniel Day-Lewis as the Butcher The butcher was based off Bill the Butcher pool a New York gang leader who died before the riots Also most of the gangs in this movie were based off of gangs that participated in the riots This movie was based off of a book by the same name Although the movie was originally conceived in 1978 it didn't release till 2000 This movie along with the book that it was based off of help draw attention to the draft riots