Monday's Subwork: 12/21/15

STANDARD CLASS:

Read pages 48 (How to Rule) to 51 of a Young People’s History of the United States and New Hampshire Legislature on the Mast Tree Riot (1734)

On page 49 of the notebook answer the following:

1. What is the very controversial message that Zinn is arguing about “How to Rule”? What is the manipulation that he is describing? Explain and use evidence to support your answer.
2. What were the actions of the men who were involved in the Mast Tree Riot? Explain and use evidence to support your answer.  
3. What does the New Hampshire legislature propose to do in order that “the utmost justice may be done to his Majestic”? Do they succeed? Explain and use evidence to support your answer.  

Honors Classwork:

Read  59 to 65 of A People’s History of the United States and on Page 45 of the notebook, answer the following questions:

1. What is tyranny? What is oppression? Do you think that any group of Americans are oppressed today?  Do you think that any group of Americans are oppressors today? Explain.
2. Some contemporary historians have described the colonial rebellions as acts of terror against the British Crown. What is terrorism? If American protesters today burned a merchant’s home and papers, fired upon American soldiers, or destroyed almost one million dollars of a company’s merchandise, would they be considered terrorists? Why, or why not?  
3. Is the above question an unfair comparison?  Who in our nation today would dispute this comparison?  Explain.  
4. In the first paragraph of “Tyranny is Tyranny,” Howard Zinn makes a case for the argument that by diverting anger that ordinary colonists had focused on the colonial elite to the British Empire, the “important people in the English colonies . . . could take over land, profits, and political power from favorites of the British Empire.”

1. What does he mean by this?
2. Do you think he proves his case in the pages that you were asked to read? If he did, what is evidence that he provided?  If he didn’t, what do you think that he would need to prove? Explain and use as much evidence as possible.

BOTH CLASSES HOMEWORK:

Finish classwork and make up anything that is missing.