was in the way between Spain and India. But instead of finding a new route and gold‚ he found a new race. 3. Write down the five most important things Zinn says about Columbus (including page numbers) write down the two most important things he says about writing history. a. One of the most important things I read in the passage was when Zinn wrote about Columbus claiming the reward‚ I found that
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war ever recorded. It broke out within Europe due the assassination of an Austrian duke by a Serbian radical group. It would involve almost all countries within Europe and was the first war where strategy gave way to mass killings as a means for victory. Lusitania- This was a British passenger ship that was carrying 124 Americans when it was sank by a German submarine. It made Americans feel they were personally attacked by Germany and inspired feelings for war in America. The Passage of
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role in the development of the U.S. and most significantly the victory of the
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hard times would ever end” (Brown 9). The time period brought on a bleak‚ depressing‚ and failing society. Howard Zinn‚ in his article called Self‐Help in Hard Times‚ provided a
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After reading the first two chapters of A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn‚ I learned many new facts that I wasn’t aware of. I learned a lot of new information spanning from the time period of 1492‚ when Christopher Columbus first discovered North America until the early 17th Century when the first African slaves were brought to America via the Triangular Trade. Howard Zinn commences his first chapter‚ Columbus‚ The Indians‚ and Human Progress by using imagery to describe the
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spreading it to newly founded territories to the west. Although he was against slavery‚ Lincoln was not in favor of equality between the races. His solution was one that made the slaves free‚ but not free Americans: he wanted to send them back to Africa (Zinn 140). Lincoln simply did not see it fit for blacks to live in the same society as whites. He found them to be two totally different races. While campaigning in Charleston‚ Illinois in 1858 for a seat in the state senate‚ Lincoln said that he was opposed
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ZINN CHAPTER 1 1. According to Zinn‚ what is his main purpose for writing A People’s History of the United States? A: to tell vivid descriptions in history that usually gets ignored. Zinn tries to bring out the positive part in the truth. 2. What is Zinn’s thesis for pages 1-11? A: Zinn’s thesis is to not grieve for the victims and denounce the executioners. 3. According to Zinn‚ how is Columbus portrayed in traditional history books? A: As a great hero that discovered the Americas
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Prompt 1: According to Randolph Bourne‚ “War is the health of the State” (qtd Zinn par 1). This seems to be at least a partially true statement‚ as the nations of Europe went to war in that fateful year‚ 1914‚ the governments thrived and patriotism in those countries increased‚ even though young men died in appalling numbers on the battlefields. Meanwhile‚ in the U.S.‚ the health of the state was of some concern. Class conflict was severe‚ and radicals were taking extreme measures in order to get
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Ruhangiz Rabbimova AP United States History (Fall 2014) Zinn Chapter 5 (A Kind of Revolution) 1. What support did the Revolutionary War effort have among the colonial population? Among the colonial population mechanics‚ sailors‚ some others were incensed against British however; general enthusiasm for the war wasn’t strong. Most of the white population went into military service and only few stayed. 2. What impact did slavery have on the war effort in the South? Slavery
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A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn Howard Zinn’s retelling of America’s past shocks audiences with it stark honesty and brutality. Heroes that have been idolized for hundreds of years are ripped from their pedestals and the audience sees revolutionary events from the eyes of the ignored and voiceless. Columbus‚ the sinless hero that is credited for the discovery of the new world‚ is publicized as a heartless‚ conscienceless‚ executioner who maliciously annihilated native ame
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