macready said i'm done. he did not complete the performance. the flyers are trying to agitate the crowd to come and a lot of working-class men from the bowery come and what always happens in riots, a lot of people came to see if there was a riot in to see what would happen. part of the crowd is, we heard something is going to happen so let's go then, it gets out of hand and a lot of shuffling in the crowd, and it escalated from your. i want to pause for a moment. i talked about the jacksonian america and aftermath of that in the 1830's and 1840's. they saw the most civil violence in american history. we talked about how a lot of the violence was made against abolitionists. we saw that those were not put down by authorities. there was a sense among the jacksonian democrats that the crowds represent the will of the people. they talked about nothing should get in the way of the will of the people. one reason we see this riot turned deadly, and in the national guard actually fired on the crowd is because here the popular will is not so clear. refin

macready said i'm done. i got pelted with devil's dung the first night, people got killed outside the theater, i am going to england the next night. he did not complete the performance. >> was that planned? prof. foote: that was the point of the flyers. they were trying to agitate the crowd to come. so a lot of working-class men from the bowery come. and of course, what always happens in riots, a lot of people came to see if there was a riot and to see what would happen. part of the crowd is, we heard something is going to happen so let's go. it gets way out of hand. a lot of scuffling in the crowd. and it escalates from here. i want to pause for a moment. if you will remember, i talked about the jacksonian america and the aftermath of that in the 1830's and 1840's. it sees the most civil violence in american history. and we talked about how a lot of the violence, for example, was made against abolitionists. and we saw that those were not put down by authorities. because there was a sense among the jacksonia