Chapter 2 - history is a weapon
explores the development of divisions of both race and class in the English colonies. How did race become a social and cultural idea in the colonies? How did the United States inherit these concepts? Do they still manifest in our society today, why or why not?



Comparing Chapter 2 and 3 of Zinn, how do we make distinctions about the treatment of indentured servants and slaves?



In "Persons of Mean and Vile Condition" there is a very different narrative than the normal founding American myth. How was the colonial adventure representative of the Americas as a land of opportunity? How was it not?