The poor citizens of New York City responded to the draft laws by instigating riots that lasted for four days.
They were in vehement opposition to the military draft acts that allow men from wealthy families to pay a certain amount so avoid being called into service. Also, African-Americans are not considered to be American citizens; thus, they are exempted from being called into military service. Because of this, those who can't afford to pay are called to military service leaving their families to fend for themselves during a time of uncertainty and hardship.
The idea of it is the idea of checks and balances. You separate the three powers and make them powerful. If one does something bad, or tries to, they get countered by another branch. The executive and the legislative choose the judicial, the judicial resolves the executive and the legislative, and so on and so forth, it's like a circle.
They were called freedom rides, because they were fighting for their freedom that way. It was a way to fight oppression in the south. Another similar way to do this was when they had sit-in where they would go to coffee shops and order things and the restaurants were known for not serving African-Americans.
He faced heavy naval resistance as well as some ground resistance but more naval if anything.
