2007-10-30 16:34:46 · 10 answers · asked by krautpierogi 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Read the book. It's a history of the gangs of New York.
2007-10-30 16:37:30 · answer #1 · answered by Jason 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I believe it was a series of events that led to the immigration laws the new country had to lay down due to overflow of immigrants from any one nation.
The Irish, my wife is Irish, started with the potato famine during the early '50's (1850) and continued into the 70's and 80's at one time over two million Irish immigrants migrated into the U.S. due to the famine. By the end of the century, the world depression was claiming many people, this and the flu epidemics.
Jobs were becoming a premium, wages low, the laws were rampant with "pay-offs" My grandparents were all part of this.
My grandfather made 17 cents an hour in a Pennsylvania coal mine and was forced to buy everything from the company. The Rockefeller, the Rothschild's, the Kennedy's, these were the people that made their fortunes on the sweat of the minorities.
I believe the "Gangs" was a movie portraying all the stories of man and his enviroment in this new nation.
2007-10-31 07:17:46 · answer #2 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell-Cat Maggie and most of the gangs mentioned by name in the movie were real gangs of New York during the 19th century. The character Bill "The Butcher" Cutting is based largely on real-life New York gang leader Bill Poole, who also was known as "The Butcher". While the draft riots depicted in the film are largely accurate, the real-life Bill "The Butcher" Poole was actually killed several years before the riots took place. Many of the characters portrayed in the movie are actually buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
2007-10-30 23:44:47 · answer #3 · answered by LadyRed03 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Part of it was the New York Induction Riots of 1863. People did not want to get drafted to fight in the Civil war (You would not see riots of this nature for another 100+ years with Vietnam)
2007-10-30 23:42:09 · answer #4 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes they took license with it, but it was based on real gangs and their lifestyle at that time in the Five Corners neighbohood of NY.
2007-10-30 23:41:18 · answer #5 · answered by dude 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Partly on the New York anti-draft riots.
2007-10-30 23:37:46 · answer #6 · answered by October 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The first time that the Yankees won the world series.
2007-10-30 23:38:04 · answer #7 · answered by Mike K 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It was a Martin Scorcese movie, do I need to say more.
2007-10-30 23:38:42 · answer #8 · answered by The Mighty Quinn 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
None, it was totally fiction. They barely kept true to the time period.
2007-10-30 23:37:11 · answer #9 · answered by Tonya R 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
the Depression?
2007-10-30 23:43:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋