Zinn 'a Peoples History Of The Us' Chapters 4-5

Front 1

How did the rich avoid the draft?

Back 1

They paid poor people to be their substitutes; the poor had to fight.

Front 2

Zinn portrays an American Revolution in which:

Back 2

Those who were materially rich desired to control the propertyless, the poor, and the unemployed, and in which the poor and propertyless sought to assert their interests against the rich.

Front 3

Zinn discusses “long-lasting social movements…involving the creation of countergovernments.” One of the examples he uses is the Regulators, who were a group of white farmers, squatters, tenants and small owners organized against the wealthy to oppose the tax system and the system of debt collection. They committed acts of mob violence. One of the interests of the leaders of the Independence movement was:

Back 3

To use the mob energy of the poor against England, but also contain it so that it would not harm them.

Front 4

In order to achieve their goals relative to the actions of the poor, the leaders of the Independence movement:

Back 4

Adopted language of popular control over governments, the right of rebellion and revolution, indignation at political tyranny, military attacks which persuaded even colonists who were divided among each other.

Front 5

Zinn notes that wealth in colonial British North America:

Back 5

Was becoming more concentrated in the hands of the few.

Front 6

The military became a place:

Back 6

for the poor.

Front 7

What is the "traditional device by which those in charge of any social order mobilize and discipline a recalcitrant population":

Back 7

offering the adventure and rewards of military service to get poor people to fight for a cause they may not see clearly as their own.

Front 8

Zinn notes that:

Back 8

impressed potential sailors into service, even though the British did the same to its population not long before.

Front 9

Alexander Hamilton:

Back 9

generally had no faith in "the people" to make sound decisions.