The people in New York were affected because a lot of blacks came into the state once they were free. They slowly began to overpoulate them, and they ended up loosing their jobs because of the cheap labor the blacks provided. A lot of whites ended up dying from the blacks raping them. :(
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The outbreak of war led to draft riots in NYC. Wealthy New Yorkers could pay someone to take there place and therefore did not have to serve in the military, while the poor could not get out of their obligation. Cotton was a major commodity which passed through NY, some used to make garments in NYC, some shipped to mills in New England, and some shipped to Europe from the Port of NY. Additionally, the Reconstruction of the South after the war became a financial burden carried almost entirely by the South. So investors in NY who were tied to cotton or the transportation industry in the south found themselves facing sharply reduced profits and sometimes bankruptcy.
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{| |- | New York was well north of the Mason Dixon Line. New York was a very populated state during the time of the Civil War. Many regiments were provided to the Union Army by the citizens of New York. There were those 'Copperheads' that were totally against the war against the South. |}
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The English Civil War took a great affect on them because they had to decidewhether to support the king or the Parliament.
In the US Civil War, since the North lost more men than the South did, and New York had the most men...probably New York lost the most men.