Howard Zinn chap 5

This chapter has to do with what happened before the war. Indians were not allowed to fight and only in the North blacks were allowed to join, therefor they had trouble recruiting white men. Poor farmers joined in hope of gaining social rank. The men ended up returning home after the war and ended up in debt because of the war and lost everything. in the revolutionary war men from the North mostly fought because the people in the South stayed out trying to keep slaves under control. When the war ended natives were still treated badly compared to the colonist and continued to lose land. the chapter finished up talking about the constitution, the men who wrote it were rich white men, the poor colonist started a riot.