When the rioters attack the rich people's of New Yorks house, one of them tries to fight them off with pistols and the rest run up stairs are we to imply the rich were killed or just beaten Up? Also the attack on the wealthy people's house seems like too much of a surprise, could they really had no warning at all?😥
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Well, the New York draft riots were a real thing. You could read up on them to find out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_draft_riots
The rioters were overwhelmingly working-class men, primarily ethnic Irish, resenting particularly that wealthier men, who could afford to pay a $300 (equivalent to $5,746 in 2015) commutation fee to hire a substitute, were spared from the draft.[4][5]share