"A Young People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn and Rebecca Stefoff states that " Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising of angry, poor colonists against two groups they saw as their enemies. One was the Indians. The other was the colonists'...leaders"(35). Throughout chapter 3, Zinn and Stefoff discuss that these colonists were fighting over lands, "Both groups claimed they owned the land..." (48) Also, attempting to bring down corruption of the Virginian Government, affirming that they "...felt that the government had let them down" (36). This book was recommended ultimately for younger readers, portraying that Bacon was a "hero."
"Whether They Be Friends or Foes" by Michael J. Puglisi was written more for older people, like historians. Pulglisi states an argument that " there has been a tendency in American history to see relations between Indians and American colonists purely in terms of conflict and separation" (76). Puglisi argues the criticism that American history puts towards Bacon's Rebellion. He describes the how the" traditional view has been to describe gap(76)," between these two sides.
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3 comments:
- Good quotes and explanation
- Not much of a summary (more detail)
- Not bias
- Straightforward, clear points
- Great sentence structure
- Interesting comparisons
-I like how you used more than one source.
-I think that if you add more details to your supporting sentences it would support it a lot better.
-I see no bias, that's good.
- I think that paragraphs should have some more details in them.
-templates are being followed.
I think you did a great job of quoting. I also felt that although yours was pretty sort, those few sentences that you did use gave a good idea of the very basic of Bacon's Rebellion.
One thing I would suggest would be to try to lengthen it and add, because what you have is informative but doesn't quite give a clear understanding of everything.
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