A Young People’s History of the United States
From the reading by: Howard Zinn and Rebecca Stefoff, "They say It was not a war of American colonists against the british. Instead, Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising of angry, poor colonists against two groups they saw as their enemies." (page 35) I agree with this statement because Bacon had no intentions of starting a war, he was only angry with William Berkeley and the Indians. (Bacon wanted land) "They also say; A hundred years before the American Revolution, a rebellion broke out in Virginia. Angry colonists set Jamestown, their capital, on fire." I believe that the colonists did this as a way of showing what they were capable of and determined to do. Little did they know, "England was sending thousands of soldiers across the Atlantic, to keep control of the forty thousand colonists." (This caught the colonists off guard).
To be honest, After reading this, I was bored!!! Michael J. Puglisi was very repetitive which made it hard to keep reading. Puglisi has some good points in his writing though, such as: "There has been a tendency in American history to see relations between Indians and American colonists purely in terms of conflict and separation. Whether in peace or in war, the traditional view has been to describe a gap, intentionally or unintentionally, between the natives and the colonists, with "them" on one side of the impassable chasm and "us" on the other." I do agree with this, because the relationship between American colonists and Indians Isn't good... meaning, they don't agree on things and each have their own beliefs and ways of doing things. I liked the way Puglisi used the division between the American colonists and Indians by saying "Them" and "Us." I believe that is a good way to state what actually happend among the two (totally different people's).
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