Analysis Of Howard Zinn's We The People

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For a long period of time Britain and its North american colonies maintained a peaceful and beneficial relationship, However once Britain started abusing the loyalty of the colonists the people realised it was time to separate themselves from the British empire. After a long 8 years the colonist finally achieved their freedom. Weather they were, right in succeeding or just overreacting has become a well debated topic today. When picturing 18th century America, using the setting Howard Zinn portrays in his novel “We the People” in relation to the ideas put forth by T.H. Breen, it seems that a revolution was unavoidable. Zinn crafts his novel exposing history from the perspective of the common people, who at this time were the colonists. Pulling many articles and sources he offers a strong argument for the need to revolt. Breen similar to Zinn uses the colonists as his subject and provides a strong thesis on …show more content…
British empire remained totally selfish during its rule over the colonies. They made it impossible for the colonies economy to grow because of their strict rule over its commerce. This made it so these people stayed in the economic class britain wanted them in. Despite this, the colonies still obeyed the king and even followed his orders to fight for the mother country in hopes that their problems with the native americans would be solved. Once again the Britain used the colonist to handle their problem, the french, then proceeded to make the colonies’ problems worse by officially declaring the majority of North America as Indian territory. Finally to pay for these ware expenses Britain decided to make the colonies even more poor by raising taxes on items that would affect the majority of people living there. In conclusion, because of Britain's abuse of power over the colonies, the people were forced to rebel in order stay in tact as a
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