ZINN CHAPTER 7: Study Questions "As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs" 1. What is the major theme (recurring idea) in this chapter. The major theme in this chapter was about the Native Americans and their survival due to the Americans taking their land‚ spreading diseases‚ and raiding their towns. 2. What evidence does Zinn cite to illustrate the overall impact of Indian removal? The evidence Zinn uses to illustrate the overall impact of the Indian removal by talking about the book
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Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States CHAPTER 1‚ pg. 1-22 Columbus‚ the Indians and human progress. Directions: read the above chapter and answer the following questions on this sheet. Major Question: Is Christopher Columbus a Hero? 1. According to Zinn‚ what is his main purpose for writing A People’s History of the United States? 2. According to Zinn‚ how is Columbus portrayed in traditional history books? 3. What is Zinn’s basic criticism of historian Samuel Eliot
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Zinn Chapter 12 1. Why might Teddy Roosevelt have thought that the United States needed a war in 1897? a. The United States was struggling politically and economically. It was believed that opening up markets overseas would relieve a lot of the problems that the United States was having in its depression. 2. In what sense was expansion overseas “not a new idea”? If it was not new‚ then why did it not begin until 1898? a. The Monroe Doctrine moved the US down south into the Caribbean even before the
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Zinn: Chapter 11 Courtney Sever Period 2 Chapter 11: Robber Barons and Rebels Main Ideas - Businessmen monopolized the markets (railroads and steel are two good examples) in exchange for “economic stability” to ensure that they had control over the full market. They would then change prices as they pleased to drive out their competition. - Many workers in the South organized strikes‚ asking for higher wages. Most of these workers were black or members of the Knights of Labor. These strikes were
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According to Marx‚ all political rule is class domination. Critically analyse. Class is not simply an ideology legitimising oppression: it denotes exploitative relations between people mediated by their relations to the means of production. In Marxian and similar theories‚ the term ‘class’ is used as a technical term connected with a theory of ownership and control. Political Rule is the exercise of power. According to Max Weber‚ Power is “the chance of man or a number of men to realize their own
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Sarah Kaufman‚ Danielle Jeanne Lindemann Selections from: The Marx-Engels Reader Karl Marx’s broad theoretical and political agenda is based upon a conception of human history that is fundamentally different from those of the social‚ and especially the philosophical‚ thinkers who came before him. Most importantly‚ Marx develops his agenda by drawing on and altering Hegel’s conception of the dialectical nature of the human experience. As Marx describes in his essay‚ “Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s
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means the relationships which people enter into with one another in order to fulfill their basic needs‚ for instance to feed and clothe themselves and their families.[1] In general Marx and Engels claimed to have identified five successive stages of the development of these material conditions in Western Europe.[2] Marx saw history as a series of "inevitable" stages: First man lived in primitive communist family groups‚ then a slave society developed - with strong leaders‚ next came feudalism‚ then capitalism - Imperialism
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Devon Lima-Mitchell 11/8/10 English 201A West Passionate Declarations: “The Ultimate Power” Everywhere you go you see it‚ whether it is children on the playground fighting over who uses the swings next or the evening news blaring from the television about another suicide bombing‚ violence follows us wherever we go. Throughout history violence has been socially accepted. Our ancestors used it to determine weakness and now we are using it again for the same reasons. Today the United States must
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Zinn 5 Paragraph Essay In “A People’s History of the United States‚” by Howard Zinn‚ Zinn states “To emphasize the heroism of Columbus and his successors as navigators and discovers‚ and to deemphasize their genocide‚ is not a technical necessity but an ideological choice. It serves-unwittingly-to justify what was done‚” this quote is true to all extent. True‚ Columbus and his followers founded Central America‚ but they were obviously not the first or the “native” Americans would have not been
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you are to respond to. Clarify how Zinn makes the argument that “racism” is not natural to human beings‚ but has been socially constructed (or “made” as a result of our experiences). Then‚ use Frederick Douglass’ words to help describe how the historical treatment of black Americans impacts race relations then and now. See the PDF on moodle regarding Analytic Paragraphs to help guide your writing. Remember‚ this is not your “opinion‚” but rather describing what Zinn and Douglass have argued regarding
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