Chapters 1-13

Front 1

Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress

Back 1

early Native American civilization in North America and the Bahamas, the genocide and slavery committed by the crew of Christopher Columbus, Aztecs, Hernando Cortez

Front 2

Drawing the color line

Back 2

african american slavery, poor british in the 13 colonies, methods of racism in order to enforce econ. system. racism is not natural - ooperation between black slaves and white servants in escaping

Front 3

persons of mean and vile conditon

Back 3

bacon's rebellion, econ. conditions of the poor

Front 4

Tyranny is tyranny

Back 4

econ. inequality, in the colonies, The american revolutionare war, founding fathers aggitated for war to distract people

Front 5

a kind of revolution

Back 5

war and resistance to participation and continued inequalities in the united states, governments are not neutral, when land of veterans seized - led to instances of resistance to the government

Front 6

the intimately oppressed

Back 6

resistance to inequalities in the lives of women, women who resisted the status quo

Front 7

as long as grass grows or water runs

Back 7

19th century conflicts between the u.s. gov. and native americans(seminole wars). indian removal

Front 8

we take nothing by conquest, thank god

Back 8

Mexican-American war, James Polk agitated for war for the purpose of expansionism, war was unpopular

Front 9

slavery w/o submission, emancipation w/o freedom

Back 9

slave rebellions, the abolition movement, the civil war and effects on african americans, the war could limit the freedom granted to African-Americans by allowing the government control over how that freedom was gained.

Front 10

the other civil war

Back 10

anti-rent movement, dorr rebellion, flour riot of 1837, moll maguires, the rise of laber unions, lowell girls movement, and depressions of he 19th century. Abuse of government power by corporatons and efforts by workers to resist abuses

Front 11

robbers, barons, and rebels

Back 11

rise of industrial corporations- railroads and banks- transformtion into the nations dominant institutions- industry and government, Knights of Labor, Edward Bellamy, the Socialist Labor Party, the Haymarket martyrs, the Homestead strikers, Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman, Eugene V. Debs, the American Railway Union, the Farmers' Alliance, and the Populist Party.

Front 12

the empire and the people

Back 12

american imperialism durion spanish-american war and philipine- american war, hawaii, guam, and puerto rico. portrays wars as being imperialist and opposed by americans

Front 13

the socialist challenge

Back 13

the rise of socialism and anarchism as popular policiaml ideologies, american federation of labor- which Zinn argues provided too exclusive of a union for non-white, female, and unskilled workers, industrial workers of the world; mother jones, joe hill - socialist labor party, progressive party