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    ZINNHOWARD CHAPTER 18 Questions and Answers 1) The Vietnamese complaints against the French both in the letters to President Truman and the 1945 Declaration of Independence‚ were based on the levying of unjust taxes‚ increasing the poverty of the rural populace‚ exploitation of mineral and forest resources‚ massive starvation‚ and imprisonment of those who would rebel or question their colonial power. In the long list of grievances against the French stated in the Vietnamese Declaration of

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    Chapter 1‚ "Columbus‚ the Indians‚ and Human Progress" covers early Native American civilization in North America and the Bahamas‚ the genocide and slavery committed by the crew of Christopher Columbus‚ and the violent colonization by early settlers. Topics include the Arawaks‚ Bartolomé de las Casas‚ the Aztecs‚ Hernando Cortes‚ Pizarro‚ Powhatan‚ the Pequot‚ the Narragansett‚ Metacom‚ King Philip’s War‚ and the Iroquois. Chapter 2‚ "Drawing the Color Line" addresses early slavery of African

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    Summary of Howard Zinn’s “Violence and Human Nature” In Howard Zinn’s article “Violence and Human Nature” Zinn investigates the belief that violence is an innate trait of human beings. In the end he comes to a conclusion that not all humans are born with a drive to be violent‚ but instead mainly influenced by that person’s natural surroundings and environments. In section one of Zinn’s article‚ he explains three events in which he has experienced which have ultimately shaped his perception of

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    Tiffany Escandon APUSH Zinn Chapter 9 Summary Period 8 ZINN CHAPTER 9:  “Slavery without submission‚ emancipation without freedom” Zinn chapter 9 talks about slavery before and after the Civil War‚ it describes the United States Government’s support of slavery until Abraham Lincoln’s approach to end Slavery.  It mentions how the slaves were kept into slavery by whipping‚ religion‚ separating families and even killing. There were many failed attempts to abolish slavery prior

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    I. (ZinnHoward. A People’s History of the United States. New York‚ New York: HarperCollins Publishers‚ 1980. Book. II. Howard Zinn‚ an American author‚ writer‚ and historian‚ was born in 1922 and died in 2012. He wrote a book calling for the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam in 1967 called Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal and was also opposed to the war in Iraq. The few topics Zinn’s work covered included civil rights and anti-war movments. III. History cannot be understood unless one looks at

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    Chapter 14: War is the Health of the State “...as the nations of Europe went to war in 1914‚ the governments flourished‚ patriotism bloomed‚ class struggle was stilled‚ and young men died in frightful numbers on the battlefields-often for a hundred yards of land‚ a line of trenches.”- Howard Zinn By the middle of the 20th Century’s second decade‚ the European powers were at war. The conflict of World War I was encompassed the crisis of the colonial powers battle for resources and territory. Though

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    Response to Howard Zinn article History is something we constantly refer to progress ourselves as humans‚ we learn from our mistakes and continue to strive from our successes. But who is to say what is a horrible mistake or a courageous act of valor? That which was documented about what happened so long ago‚ was done by a person who spread the story or wrote it down from their perspective. Howard Zinn’s argument that there is no

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    were men‚ the landholders and merchants men‚ the political leaders men‚ the military figures men‚ the very invisibility of women‚ the overlooking of women‚ is a sign of their submerged status‚” stated in Chapter Six of Howard Zinn’ s famous book‚ A People’s History of the United States. As Zinn has stated in the quote‚ women and their achievements in history have been rarely mentioned in society which is the sign of treating women as inferior subjects. Treating women as inferior has started since

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    The Late Howard Zinn is a very respectable historian. He is very bold and is willing to state things that cause quite a bit of controversy. Throughout one’s youth we go on learning history in anecdotes and learning important facts such as dates and memorization of legal documents; however Zinn takes a very crucial look at small events and also takes note of who the founding fathers were and what they really wanted. Howard Zinn believed that the true reason for the civil war was truly for wealth

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    Howard Zinn and Paul Johnson Howard Zinn‚ born August 24‚ 1922‚ grew up in the slums of New York City. He recalls moving around a lot as his father ran candy stores during the Depression. He graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School and became a pipe fitter in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It was here that he met his wife‚ Roslyn Shechter. Zinn was a revolutionary and an activist. He spent his early life organizing labor rallies and participating in marches for civil rights. In 1943‚ Zinn joined

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