Early America

America. No other word in any language sparks such a passion of energy in people. Why is this? Is it because of the prosperity that the United States is associated with? Maybe, it is the idea of complete freedom. Most people in less fortunate countries dream about a life in a new land. Most often America is the land which pops into their heads. If people in less fortunate countries dream of a new life …

…Zinn and Baily are two completely different writers and their opinions on our social, political, and revolutionary origins are one in the same. They share the same opinion that America fought for our revolution against overpowering odds, built a political system where equality in everyone was a must, not just in the rich, and our society was shaped by the countries in which the colonists came from. America was truly a mixed bag of people.