How Did White Men Gain Independence

During the eighteenth century, the privileged white males had their own ideas that were expected from them. As being above the rest, they simply focused on the importance for themselves and ignored the other groups of men and women. Zinn’s assertion is agreeable for the following reasons: time period, ideologies of founding fathers, and profits gained through slavery. The time period in which the Declaration was written, started our independence from Great Britain around the 1770’s, resulting in the creation of what we call now the United States. Our founding fathers together formed the statement in which they intended to follow as leaders of our country, to protect our freedom right from the government. Zinn mentions, “They created the most …show more content…
Once we gained independence, the new government formed by the privileged white males was in full swing. With the start of a new government, their focus was on building a new military and creating laws but they mainly focused on the money, which is desired for a new government. Alexander Hamilton wrote, “if we are saved, France and Spain must save us”, with the help from France as an ally we made it possible to win the revolution. (Zinn 77) The government had to find ways to pay their debts from the war. In order to get money, they had to borrow from their alliances they made with the French colony, that wanted to help them gain independence. They also received money through slavery and taxation. In this time period the new country was made and ruled by the founding fathers that helped gain our independence to start their hierarchy. The founding fathers became a new elite group in the war. Their belief was to treat women, Africans, and poor white men with tyranny and let them know they were below everyone else. These groups did not benefit any from the revolution, but gained a new oppressive government. It is true to agree with Zinn on the way our founding father thought of women, “They were politically