1. His main purpose for writing A Peoples History of the United States is to give information in a fair way.
2. His thesis for the first 11 pages is to describe past events as they happened.
3. Columbus is portrayed in traditional books as a false hero because his discovery was accidental. HE slaughtered, abused and exploited the natives who were nice to him when he got there.
4. He thinks nobody should take the memory of the nation as their own.
5. One motive that drove Columbus to oppress indigenous peoples was Gold. It was a sign of wealth and he wanted as much of it as possible and he also wanted to find a shorter route to India.
6. Bartolome de Las Casas was originally a cpnquistador but then turned into a priest and a promoter of peace.
7. The signifigance of Powhatans statement was to show that …show more content…
Zinn attempted to prove that the Indians were not inferior by writing a history textbook that gave different views on American history and the textbook shows the struggle of the Indians.
10. Zinn does not like Columbus day because he believs that Columbus did not do very much and took credit for finding land even though he wasn’t the first one to see it. HE argues that past historians have justified Columbus’ genocide of the Arawaks by sasying how Columbus made the arawaks slaves and murdered them.

Zinn Chapter 2
1. According to Zinn, slavery is the root of racism in America.
2. Slavery developed because Europeans hated black and believed that it was evil and that white was pure and racism developed because that was the root of racism.
3. Africans were considered better slaves in Virginia because it was more difficult for them to run away because they weren’t as familiar with the land as the Indians were.
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5. The conditions on the middle passage were very bad. They were handcuffed anf the men and women were separated. They barely got anything to eat, there were no bathrooms, disease spread rapidly and many people died before they even finished the