PART I QUIZ
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
Compare the views of these two historians by answering the following questions. Be sure to find specific examples in the text to support your answers.
1. What is the topic of each excerpt?
The topic of Bernard Bailyn’s excerpt, “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution.” focused around his theory that multiple, radical ideologies were the cause of the American Revolution. He says, “In the end I was convinced that the fear of a comprehensive conspiracy against liberty throughout the English speaking world—a conspiracy believed to have been nourished in corruption, and of which, it was felt, oppression in America was only the most immediately visible part—lay at the heart of the Revolutionary …show more content…
Meanwhile, Gary Nash believes that the ideology towards the economic circumstances of the poor was what led to the American Revolution because he says, “To understand how this popular ideology swelled into revolutionary commitment within the middle and lower ranks of colonial society, we must first comprehend how the material conditions of life were changing for city dwellers during the colonial period…” This illustrates how Nash took this event personally and tried to prove the poverty of the colonists is what originally led to the American …show more content…
Similarly, Gary Nash clearly claims that “The willingness of broad segments of urban society to participate in attacks on narrowly concentrated wealth and power—both at the polls where the poor and propertyless were excluded, and in the streets where everyone, including women, apprentices, indentured servants, and slaves, could engage in action…” He is very direct with how economic status caused people to take action, leading to the American
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
Compare the views of these two historians by answering the following questions. Be sure to find specific examples in the text to support your answers.
1. What is the topic of each excerpt?
The topic of Bernard Bailyn’s excerpt, “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution.” focused around his theory that multiple, radical ideologies were the cause of the American Revolution. He says, “In the end I was convinced that the fear of a comprehensive conspiracy against liberty throughout the English speaking world—a conspiracy believed to have been nourished in corruption, and of which, it was felt, oppression in America was only the most immediately visible part—lay at the heart of the Revolutionary …show more content…
Meanwhile, Gary Nash believes that the ideology towards the economic circumstances of the poor was what led to the American Revolution because he says, “To understand how this popular ideology swelled into revolutionary commitment within the middle and lower ranks of colonial society, we must first comprehend how the material conditions of life were changing for city dwellers during the colonial period…” This illustrates how Nash took this event personally and tried to prove the poverty of the colonists is what originally led to the American …show more content…
Similarly, Gary Nash clearly claims that “The willingness of broad segments of urban society to participate in attacks on narrowly concentrated wealth and power—both at the polls where the poor and propertyless were excluded, and in the streets where everyone, including women, apprentices, indentured servants, and slaves, could engage in action…” He is very direct with how economic status caused people to take action, leading to the American