Study Guide 2 Zinn, "Tyranny is Tyranny" & "a kind of Revolution"

Zinn, “Tyranny is Tyranny” & “A Kind of Revolution”

1. 
   Indentured servants and slaves
   

2. 
   Shipboard conditions for unfree labor
   

3. 
   Conditions of labor
   

4. 
   Native Americans (epidemics, intensifies warfare, depleting game animals, marker economy and dependency)
   

5. 
   France’s inland empire
   

6. 
   French and Indian relations
   

7. 
   Spanish America and buffer zone
   

8. 
   Spanish mission system
   

9. 
   Colonial American economy
   

1. 
   Northern farming and climate
   

2. 
   Southern plantation agriculture
   

3. 
   Southern yeomanry
   

4. 
   Urban hubs
   

1. 
   artisans and artisan culture
   

2. 
   merchants
   

3. 
   manufactures
   

1. 
   core values emerging ambition, individualism, materialism, entrepreneurialism
   

2. 
   supply and demand and “just price”
   

10. 
    Slave ownership in the South
    

11. 
    Plantation social relations/class hierarchy/class structure
    

12. 
    American colonies in Atlantic trade basin
    

13. 
    Mercantilism: increased exports, taxing imports, regulation of production and trade, exploitation of colonies
    

14. 
    Gap between rich and poor
    

15. 
    Northern class structure/wealth distribution (e.g., In Boston, by 1770, the top 1% of property owners owned 44% of the wealth)
    

16. 
    In New York [around 1750], the city almshouse, built for 100 poor, was housing over 400
    

17. 
    Supply/demand and community
    

18. 
    Enlightenment thought
    

19. 
    The Awakeners message
    

20. 
    The Quakers
    

21. 
    Whig ideology
    

22. 
    Crowd action (e.g., impressments riots, 1747)
    

23. 
    From Englishmen to Americans
    

24. 
    breaking restrictions on colonial trade
    

1. 
   American colonies and taxes
   

2. 
   Navigation Acts
   

1. 
   planters
   

2. 
   entrepreneurs
   

3. 
   smuggling
   

3. 
   Vice Admiralty courts
   

25. 
    Seven Years War
    

1. 
   costs
   

2. 
   Pontiac’s Rebellion & Proclamation of 1763
   
3. 
   enforcements of Navigation Acts
   

26. 
    New Taxes
    

1. 
   Sugar Act 1764
   

2. 
   Stamp Act 1765
   

27. 
    Reaction to Stamp Act
    

1. 
   Stamp Act riots
   

2. 
   Stamp Act Congress
   

28. 
    Road to Revolution
    

1. 
   Urban crucibles
   

2. 
   Sons of Liberty
   
   1. 
      Boycotts
      

2. 
   Boston Massacre
   

3. 
   Townsend Act/Declaratory Act
   

4. 
   Boston Tea Party
   

3. 
   Free farmers
   

4. 
   Lexington/Concord
   

29. 
    Adam Smith and Spirit of ‘76
    

30. 
    Thomas Paine
    

31. 
    French guns
    

32. 
    Articles of Confederation
    
33. 
    Mel Gibson’s Revolution
    

34. 
    Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation
    

35. 
    Slavery and Freedom
    

36. 
    Conflicting visions
    

1. 
   Jefferson
   

2. 
   Hamilton
   

3. 
   unfree labor/exploitation
   

37. 
    The Making of the Constitution
    

1. 
   Shays’ Rebellion
   

2. 
   “mob rule”
   
3. 
   finance, tariff, credit, taxation, common defense
   

4. 
   property rights
   

5. 
   Charles Beard
   

38. 
    Manufacturing sector
    

39. 
    Hamilton Reports
    

40. 
    Napoleonic Wars
    

41. 
    Industrial Revolution
    

42. 
    A New Sector is Born