Questions from movie

1) What rebel leaders does Paul Revere ride at midnight to warn?
Paul Revere was riding to inform Samuel Adams and John Haddcocks of the 700 British troupes heading for concord because the militia/ minutemen were gathering and had weapons. He also told the Captain of the minutemen and alarmed every house until he got to Lexington.

2) In detail, describe how the battle of Concord looked?
Rebels marched towards the bridge. The British started firing at the rebels so they started to fight back as well. A lot of house-to-house fighting. Minute men marched towards the bridge as the British were coming to it. The British fired a warning shot and than a shot into the minutemen. The American rebels fired back. 19 miles running battle as the British ran back to Boston. 11,000-minute men and militiamen ran to the roadside but only 4000 reached the road to fire at the king’s army.

3) Why was the Revolutionary War the most important event in U.S. History?
It was the most important because it was our attempt and success to break from Britain.
Legally created the nation and infused out beliefs in equality, liberty, happiness of ordinary people and constitutionalist.
So many aspects of what Americans are today were created from the people of the revolutionary war. Composites’ of America are in the revolutionary war

4) How many cities over 10,000 where there in America at the time of the Revolution?
There were four cities.

5) Describe the country before the Revolutionary War? Why might not we, in the 21st century, recognize it?
The riches of the land were the colonists for the taking. We might not recognize it now because them there were only 2 ½ million people who all lived close to the oceans. There were no bridges. The rivers where used as highways but obstacles for movement. It was all wooded. The colonists saw themselves as the freest people in the world.

6) Why was James Otis important?
Lawyer saw the seeds of tyranny. His writings that were the inspiration for Samuel Adams
His writings which where the inspiration of Samuel Adams and other leaders; he was the mind behind the revolution, Samuel was the mouth


7) What was Samuel Adams known for?
He was a leader during the Revolutionary war. Started the Committees of Correspondence. He was the Boston protest movement's mastermind. Started the sons of liberty. Exploited the Boston Massacre.

8) Describe the Patriotic Leaders.
All the leaders were rich white men who didn’t want their social status to change or the way of life to change they just wanted to break from Britain
Radical Patrick Henry
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
Samuel Adams

9) What percent of the population, according to John Adams, wanted liberty?
1/3 wanted liberty, 1/3 wanted to stay with Britain and 1/3 remained neutral

10) Discuss how the events of the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party lead to the Revolutionary War.
A shot was fired that started the war, it was the first bloody spilled of a fight between the minute -men and Britain,
Boston Massacre: in Boston, British soldiers killed men in a mob. Adams wrote that they needed to be tried for murder and British soldiers were removed from Boston.
The Boston Tea Party further angered both the colonists and British; it caused Britain to strike back hard.

Zinn: Over view of Chapter 5

This chapter had a lot to do with post revolution and a little about the war. It starts with explaining how America had a hard time recruiting white men to fight and that most did not stay in the army for long. Indians were not allowed to fight and only in the North were blacks and slaves allowed to join. Many poor white farmers joined in hope that they would gain social ranking by eventually moving up to a colonel position. This did not happen in most cases and instead afterwards when the men returned home they found out they had become in debt and had not paid thing such as taxes so they lost everything, one women had her her bed taken from under her. Also the revolution was fight mostly by people from the North, the south mostly stayed out of it because they were to busy trying to keep slaves under control. After the revolution, the natives continued to lost land and were not considered equal to colonies. While the blacks began fighting for freedom and rights. Which was mostly gained in the north while slavery in the South grew.
Chapter 5 than continued to talk about the making of the constituiton. It explained how those that meet to write it were many rich men and so the poor colonest started campaign and riot for rights. Preventing court date to go through with in a lot of cases. Zinn also touched on how it was established how leaders would be chosen. Chapter 5 than ended with explaining how some laws and ammendaments have been twisted such as the freedo of speech and that there were many creases that needed to be ironed out within the new government.

Questions from part two of the movie

1) Why do only the Mohawk agree to fight with General Johnson?
- Only the Mohawks joined because none of the other tribes wanted to shed native blood in a white man’s war.
2) What are the results of the Battle of Lake George?
- At first the Mohawks on the French side tried to try to prevent the battle with their fellow Mohawks but the warning was too late. The battle lasted through out the day, until the British finally succeed in forcing the French to retreat. In the end on the British side, 30 warriors 150 colonials are died, their spirits are low, and the Mohawks returned home to mourn their dead. Lake George became the front line between two empires.

3) For what purposes did the Native Americans take captive? (List three)
-They took captives as (1) a weapon against encroachers, (2) as ransom or (3) it was a way to replace warriors killed in battle.

4) Why is the story of Mary Jemison presented? What purpose does it serve?
- Mary Jemison’s story was presented to show what was happening to other colonists and to reflect what was happening to many captives.

5) Do you agree with Washington's disciplinary practices on deserters? Why or why not?
- Not really, his method was to strike fear in his men so that they would obey. I don’t thank that is right and also if a couple of men don’t want to fight they should not be killed for it. I think Washington’s disciplinary practices were a little harsh.

6) Who is Montcalm and why doesn't he like the Natives?
- Montcalm was a French Commander. He saw the Natives as barbarians. He also didn’t like the way things took so long to get anywhere with them. He doesn’t like them because their ways are so much different than that of the French.

7) What is the Native Americans code of honor? How does this differ from the Europeans' Code of War?
- The Native ways were to plunder from their victims and take captives back to their village to replace warriors lost in battle. The European saw this as saveragie because they let the remaining opponents leave with a little dignity and respect.

8) Discuss the culture clash that happens at Fort William Henry.
- The Natives had a problem with the Europeans formal approach and were mad and felt disrespected when Montcalm did not allow them to take plunder or captives and even more disrespected when the French and British had a banquet without inviting the natives.

Questions from Movie

1.) Why is George Washington partially responsible for the start of the French and Indian War?
- He was the one to recruit Half- King who was the one to kill the French messenger, which made the French mans brother mad, so he sent an army, starting the French and Indian War.
2.) Who as Half- King?
- He is an Indian leader who is in Washington’s first war. He Kills a French messenger because he’s on his own agenda. He was also the first leader willing to talk to British about the Ohio fork. Leader of refugees, not much options, and so he felt he need alliance with Britain.

3.) Why did Half King Murder/ Massacre the French?

-He killed the French messenger because he was humiliation from a previous defeat.

4.) Who was in the right? The French. The English or The Native Americans?

- Well I don’t know if anyway was in the right but if I have to choose I guess I would go with the British.