13. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 13: Home Front Protest during the Civil War

**Quiz for Document 13.2: Testimony of New York City Draft Riot Victim, Mrs. Statts, Collected by the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People, Suffering from the Late Riots (1863)**

Quiz for Document 13.2: Testimony of New York City Draft Riot Victim, Mrs. Statts, Collected by the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People, Suffering from the Late Riots (1863)

Document 13.2: Testimony of New York City Draft Riot Victim, Mrs. Statts, Collected by the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People, Suffering from the Late Riots (1863)

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Question 13.4

1. What does Mrs. Statts’s account reveal about the New York City police department’s approach to the draft riots?

The department deployed its forces, but its depleted ranks were unable to stop the violence.

The department, which was primarily staffed by Irish New Yorkers, participated in the riots.

It directed its attention towards arresting the victims of the riots rather than the perpetrators.

It denied the seriousness of the riots and, by failing to get involved, allowed them to occur.

Question 13.5

2. Mrs. Statts’s description of the violence she witnessed during the draft riots indicates that the rioters attacked

only black men.

only black women.

any black people they ran across.

primarily women and children.

Question 13.6

3. How did Mrs. Statts finally escape the rioters?

She left the city on foot and reached New Jersey.

She took refuge in a Baptist church.

She hid in a basement with other women and children.

She reached a refuge set up by the Union army.

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