Part 1- Defining Terms:Identify in the context of the documents each of the following key terms. Please express your answer in 3-4 complete sentences that directly reference the documents.
Cooperheads, Butternuts, The Great Famine, Irish Catholics, Enrollment Act of 1863, Ellen Leonard, George Templeton Strong, The $300 Exemption, Colored Orphan Asylum and "A mob is un-American, anti-American"
Part 2- Probing the Sources:Answer the following questions to the best of your ability. Please express your answer in 3-4 complete sentences that directly reference the documents.
1. What types of exemptions were allowed in the Union conscription act of 1863? Why do you think these exclusions were allowed? Were the exemptions justified?
2. What attitudes about gender, class and race were expressed in the accounts of the draft riots?
3. Who and what were the targets of the rioting? Was there a pattern to the violence?
4. What biases do you find in Ellen Leonard's account of the Riots?
Part 3- Interpreting the Sources: Answer the following questions to the best of your ability. Please express your answer in 3-4 complete sentences that directly reference the documents.
1.Who was responsible for the violence that hit New York in July of 1863? Why?
2. What do the documents tell us about the roles of race and class in the riots?
3. In what ways were the riots of July 1863 similar to and different from contemporary manifestations of violence in Northern Ireland, in South Africa, in the Middle East, or American Cities?
4. How does the history of the draft riots make us see the Civil War in a New Light?