Questions for Ap Us History

Question 3: Schweikart and Allen and Zinn describe urban-industrial life for the mass of Americans by what they didn’t have and what they were fighting for, not by what they already had. The difference is that Zinn described how bad their lives were while Schweikart and Allen described how the people were trying to change their lives. This shows that although the general idea of how the masses did not have exactly what they wanted, how they went about getting what they wanted is different depending on the source.

Howard Zinn discussed several things in this chapter. At first, he mentioned the white frontiersmen rebellion and how the rebellion threat the government. This rebellion was bacon’s rebellion. Also, he talked about how the England government ended this rebellion. The main argument for Zinn in this chapter was the division of the community in the colonies according to social and economic status into upper class which was the wealthy people, and the lower class which consist of poor people. Also, he talked about the relationship among white, and Indians, and black slaves.

1. Zinn’s main purpose for writing A People’s History of the United States is to show history from the viewpoint of others.

1. The colonies saw crime as sin; what was the effect of this? What was the “Benefit of Clergy concept.”

As Zinn presents his weakly-formed argument in chapter one of “A People’s History of the United States,” he uses unconventional amounts of emotion and factual details in an attempt to relay his message that textbooks and historians deliberately exclude alternative perspectives in order to

First of all, Howard Zinn proves his thesis by talking about the life of a slave prior to the war.

The British were the first to take action against the rebellious Americans, with the mindset that they would cripple a few towns, and that will make the Americans become loyal again, however they faced with colonial retaliation, which began the Revolutionary War, and began a series of major battles between the two nations, and as the British continuously proclaimed rebellion and war, the colonies were soon closed to all commerce, and though many colonies didn’t considered it, independence was the best option.

2. The Northwest Territory, depicted in the map above, stops at the Mississippi River because…

Another factor that affected their survivability is the fact that there were already different tribes of Indians inhabiting the designated Indian Lands. The authors of this appeal argued that the Indians who would become their

Zinn is expressing his feeling of injustice in our country. We took land from the Hispanic people by force, then we call them aliens to an area where they have deep historical roots. We prevent immigrants from coming here when we really have no right to prevent anything. These lands were habited by other people before anything American was established. So what right do we have to say who can come here and who cannot. But the government making decisions to send people off to war for the worst reasons of greed and personal gain is just wrong. Zinn is expressing some of the horrible things about our country.

Zinn Chapter One Questions: 1. What is Zinn’s thesis for pages 1-11? Zinn's thesis for pages 1-11 is to prove to us and show us in many ways that Christopher Columbus is not the hero that everyone thinks he is. He never fulfilled his promises to those that had promised. Zinn proved to us that he was a dishonest and heartless person toward those who supported him and his journeys.

During the Civil War and Reconstruction period, Republicans made vast efforts in improving domestic economic growth. A transcontinental railroad was first enacted to not only increase the speed of travelling from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but to also increase trade with other nations, and bolster the farming and tourism of the West. The railroad would help populate areas in the West, which would help make America the highway of nations. Private companies were called upon by Republicans to help fund the railroad, even though they were still provided with loans, public grants of land, and various subsidies. These railroad companies had a significant

As stated in Zinn’s novel A People’s History of the United States Zinn everyone’s view point on the history of the United States is different, his view point however, is throughout all of history there has always been, and always will be a conqueror and a conquered, masters and slaves. Thus, with this it’s inevitable to pick sides as Zinn did. In his novel Zinn favored the side of the Native Americans (conquered) over Christopher Columbus (conqueror) thusly this causes Zinn to tell the story in viewpoint on the Native Americans or the Arawarks , this leads to subjective history. An example of how Zinn uses his opinion in his novel is when he states that Columbus was responsible for one of the world’s worst genocides. When Columbus first arrived in the Americas he

This book has proven to be an enlightening read. It both teaches and inspires. Howard Zinn has offered us a perspective of the real story of American history heretofore unavailable to us – history from the perspective of real people – immigrant laborers, American women, the working poor, factory workers, African and Native Americans.

The English could not come over here and live together with the Indians. The Indians were a group that was unholy and beneath them. They had to progress their culture and their beliefs and mark out that of their opponents. Americans sought to cleanse the land of these savage beasts and further their own society.