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.