Question 1 You will, no doubt, be hard on us rioters tomorrow morning-but that 300-dollar law has made us nobodies, vagabonds and cast-outs of society, for whom nobody cares when we must go to war and be shot
down."
The statement above refers to conscription during which conflict?
A
The American Revolution
B
The Mexican-American War
The Civil War
D.
The First World War
E
The Vietnam War

The correct answer is "the Civil War."

The statement above refers to conscription during the Civil War conflict.

After the United States Congress issued the Conscription Act in 1863. The idea was to draft many men into the army to fight in the war. However, there was a possibility to pay $300 to get a substitution. This, of course, to avoid being drafted. And that is when the problem started. New Yorkers were upset at the decision and many of them took the streets to protest. People from New York protested in violent ways. Government officials, black people, and even Protestant clergy received aggressions from protesters.

d. it adversely affected american productivity