The website and reading from Bernstein both had useful information. I like the website because it focused on main points and gave you like a brief summary on what occured. The reading however had alot more detail which i found more useful. So if you needed more specific facts than the reading was the way to go. The riot lasted five days, so the website set it up so that you could click on each day and see what occured that day.
On the website i learned that when people were being drafted it was like a lottery, just calling random names of people. The people were outraged and would hold up “No draft” signs. Wealthy citizens were being attacked as well as there businesses. African Americans were becoming a huge target. William Jones was hung from a tree, and he was just walking to get a loaf of bread. So you can see how these people literally went insane there whole physcology was offset from this situation. From Bersteins reading i learned that the draft riots were another way to show who has more power between the democratic immigrants and the republican reformers. The reading defininitly went into great detail about the civil war. I found out what the Federal Conscription act was. The law was disciminating against the poor because anyone who could afford to pay $300 could excuse themselves from going to war. The reading gave more insight on social order, merchants were one group it focused on.
