homework for 9/27/16

Your assignment for tonight and for tomorrow night are Annotations and Questions for Zinn's Chapter 5, pages (60-69). You are responsible for annotating and answering the following questions. The reading and questions will be discussed on ​Thursday, September 29th. 

1. How much colonial opposition was there to British rule in 1776?
   
   
2. What motivated the colonial poor to fight the British?
   
   
3. Zinn argues that the American Revolutionary "war was making the ruling elite more secure against internal trouble" (page 62). What does Zinn provide to support this assertion?
   
   
4. The Battle of Saratoga (1777) brought the French into the war on the side of the Americans. Why was the result significant enough to make the Battle of Saratoga the "turning point" the war?
   
   
5. What were the grievances of the American troops who mutinied or rebelled during the American Revolution?
   
   
6. What were the methods of control used by the Revolutionary elite to control disobedient and rebellious colonists?
   
   
7. How did farmers resist impoverishment?
   
   
8. Why did the Indians fight with the British against colonial rebels? 
   
   
9. How did blacks respond to the opportunities presented by the revolutionary war? 
   
   
10. Why did the author of "all men are created equal", Thomas Jefferson, remain a slaveholder all his life? 
    
    
11. Who benefits the most from a strong central government? Why?