Zinn Questions For Chapter 5

“A Kind of Revolution”

 

 

 

1.     How is the general perception that the Revolution engendered the separation of church and state challenged by Zinn?

 

 

 

2.     Explain Carl Degler’s assertion that “no new social class came to power throughout the door of the American revolution.”

 

 

 

3. What is Charles Beard’s thesis in An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution vis-à-vis the Founding Fathers and the creation of the Constitution?

 

 

 

4.     What was Thomas Jefferson’s view of popular uprisings?  Contrast his view with those of the established leadership.

 

 

 

5. How does the Constitution illustrate the complexity of the American system?

 

 

 

6.     How does Zinn argue the First Amendment is not as stable as one might assume?