Questions for Ap Us History

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

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

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.

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.

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

One of the weaknesses of this book was the way in which a strong opinion of the author frequently came to the surface. The impression given when reading was one of bias in that the Spanish were wrong to come in and refine everything. This was reflected in the fact that periodically within the book, when the Spanish conquistadors did something to the Indians, it was pointed out how inhumane it was. Yet, when the Indians retaliated in some way, it was quickly pointed out how justified they were. The mentioned advantages that the Indians gained through the Spaniards were infrequent and underdeveloped.

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.

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.

a.) According to Zinn, the main purpose behind the writing of A People’s History of the United States was to tell the history of the United States through the losers POV.

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.

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

8. Zinn attempts to prove the Indians were not inferior by saying how they had developed into egalitarian communities, larger populations, more divisions of labor among men and women and had built irrigation canals, dams, were doing ceramics, weaving baskets, and making cloth out of cotton. A culture known as Moundbuilders had built enormous sculptures out of the earth that were miles long and many other tribes had tool makers, potters, jewelry makers, weavers, copper engravers and saltmakers. The Indians were able to govern themselves by working together and lived in peace with no laws, sheriffs, judges, juries, courts, or jails. Their culture was complex, and although they did not have a written language they kept their history going orally with song and dance and their relations among men women and children were more beautifully worked out than probably any other place in the world.

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

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.

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