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Standard "2.0 Peoples of the Nations and World," Indicator "5.2 …"

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The Conscription [draft] is a necessity; the Conscription is a law; the Conscription is just. It is demanded for the suppression [crushing] of the Southern rebellion; it is needed to fill up our heroic but shattered regiments; the country called for it.  . . .  It is the justest mode of raising an army—just to the people of every class and condition, poor and rich, black and white.

—“The Conscription Must be Enforced,” New York Times, July 1863

What was one reaction to the situation described in the excerpt?

  1. A.
    Taxes on Southern goods were removed.
  2. B.
    States began to secede from the Union.
  3. C.
    European countries began sending soldiers.
  4. D.
    Riots broke out in several Northern cities.