The law incited violent public disturbances, called the Draft Riots, in New York City between July 13 and 16, 1863. One thousand people were injured in the riots.In 1917, one month after the entry of the United States into World War I, Congress passed the Selective Draft Act (40 Stat....
Related to conscription:Conscription Act of 1863 con·scrip·tion (kən-skrĭp′shən) n. 1.Compulsory enrollment, especially for the armed forces; draft. 2.A monetary payment exacted by a government in wartime. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyr...
Necessity Knows No Law: Vested Rights and the Styles of Reasoning in the Confederate Conscription CasesOn December 7, 1863, Jefferson Davis sent his annual message to the Confederate Congress. Davis lamented the reversals of fortune of the Confederate military the previous summer. He believed that...
读音:英[kən'skrɪpʃ(ə)n] 美[kən'skrɪpʃən] conscription 基本解释 n. 征兵, 募兵, 征用(制度) [法] 征兵, 征用 conscription 词性变化 名词复数形式:conscriptions 词组短语 1、conscriptionage [法] 兵役年龄 2、conscriptionlaw [法] 征兵法, 兵役法 ...
the United States instituted a law allowing for the conscription of its citizens. Conscription, which can also be referred to as a draft, is defined as the compulsory drafting of citizens into military service (What). The Draft has been utilized throughout US History in a couple of prominent...
and until December 1863 a wealthy man could hire a substitute to serve in his place. The most controversial element of the Confederate conscription was the “Twenty-Slave” law, which allowed one white man from a plantation with 20 or more slaves to avoid service during the war. This was ...
In 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, Congress passed a conscription law making all men between twenty and forty-five years of age liable for military service. 1863年美国内战中期,国会通过了一项要求所有20到45岁的美国男人必须服义务兵的法律。
Twitter Google Share on Facebook New York Draft Riots (redirected fromConscription Act of 1863) New York Draft Riots anticonscription feelings resulted in anarchy and bloodshed (1863). [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 429] See:Riot Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionar...
The Union Enrollment Act of 1863 drafted all able-bodied men between twenty and forty-five years of age. The act provoked a hostile public response because it excused from military service those who were able to pay a fee of three hundred dollars. The law incited violent public disturbances,...