HOTA Summer Assignment
Chapter one:
Analysis: Zinn thouroughly believes that Columbus is an awful person and portrays him to be so when explaining how he would cut the hands off of the Indians who did not bring him enough gold or if they ran away he would track them down and kill them. Even though it was almost impossible to find the amount of gold that Columbus was asking for from each person. But, Zinn does not believe that Columbus was the only horrid explorer, he also states that Cortes treated the Aztec similarly, and Pizzaro to the Incas, and the English settlers of Virginia and Massachusetts to the Powhatans and the Pequots. Zinn basically states how almost all European settlers in North America treated Native Americans in the same way, committing “genocide” to claim what they saw as their destiny.
Title: Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress. Zinn named the title this because he believes that Columbus, and English settler, had huge affects on the Indians because of all the awful things he did to them and how he treated them. Zinn believes that slaughter is the necessary price for human …show more content…
Zinn argues that while some histories shown the war as a popular cause; in real life it was much different, the war was unpopular to the majority of Americans. Polk’s main reason for war with Mexico was to get the land of California. Polk made it seem like Mexico invaded America first and that he sent troops as a measure of defense just to get the support from Congress. When in truth he actually sent troops into the disputed and Mexico responded. Many people believe Polk started the war and I agree with them. Also I do not think we were justified in our conquest of Mexico because Mexico already disliked America because we annexed Texas, so when Polk decided to take Texas, Mexico decided to fight for it. Plus the American army took all the post and ran into California and declared it theirs without any
Chapter one:
Analysis: Zinn thouroughly believes that Columbus is an awful person and portrays him to be so when explaining how he would cut the hands off of the Indians who did not bring him enough gold or if they ran away he would track them down and kill them. Even though it was almost impossible to find the amount of gold that Columbus was asking for from each person. But, Zinn does not believe that Columbus was the only horrid explorer, he also states that Cortes treated the Aztec similarly, and Pizzaro to the Incas, and the English settlers of Virginia and Massachusetts to the Powhatans and the Pequots. Zinn basically states how almost all European settlers in North America treated Native Americans in the same way, committing “genocide” to claim what they saw as their destiny.
Title: Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress. Zinn named the title this because he believes that Columbus, and English settler, had huge affects on the Indians because of all the awful things he did to them and how he treated them. Zinn believes that slaughter is the necessary price for human …show more content…
Zinn argues that while some histories shown the war as a popular cause; in real life it was much different, the war was unpopular to the majority of Americans. Polk’s main reason for war with Mexico was to get the land of California. Polk made it seem like Mexico invaded America first and that he sent troops as a measure of defense just to get the support from Congress. When in truth he actually sent troops into the disputed and Mexico responded. Many people believe Polk started the war and I agree with them. Also I do not think we were justified in our conquest of Mexico because Mexico already disliked America because we annexed Texas, so when Polk decided to take Texas, Mexico decided to fight for it. Plus the American army took all the post and ran into California and declared it theirs without any