The New York City draft riots ( July 13–16 , 1863 ) , known Know at the time as Draft Week , were violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan , widely regarded Know as the culmination of white working-class discontent with new laws passed Motion_directional by Congress that year to draft men to fight Hostile_encounter in the ongoing American Civil War .

The rioters were overwhelmingly white working-class men , mostly Irish or of Irish descent , who feared free black people competing for work and resented Judgment_communication that wealthier men , who could afford Commerce_pay to pay Commerce_pay a $ 300 ( equivalent to $ 9,200 in 2017 ) commutation fee to hire Employment a substitute , were spared from the draft .

A hotbed of working-class radicalism , Paris was primarily defended Defending during this time by the often politicised and radical troops of the National Guard rather than regular Army troops .

The 2011 Imbaba church attacks Attack were a series of attacks Attack that took place Process_start in Egypt on 7 May 2011 against Coptic Christian churches in the poor working-class neighborhood of Imbaba in Giza , near Cairo .