In the American history women had been treated unequally. They don’t have right to vote and couldn’t get same pay as men got. Therefore, they stared feminism for their right. Therefore, they went out to protest for their right. In the chapter the author wrote” Women were 50 percent of the voters-but (even by 1967) they held 4 percent of the state legislative seats, and 2 percent of the judgeships”. This shows that even after feminism, women still been treated unequally. Although half of voters were women, they only held a few seats in state legislative and judgeships. In additional, the state legislative is the government branch to create laws, if they don’t have enough seats, they will not have any chance to pass the law for women. Moreover, if there are a few women in judgeships, they will not get fair adjudge. As the result, they still didn’t have the same right as men had. Therefore, I think they are important in the chapter because it forces people to change their views, that the women are equal as the men.

In the chapter Zinn also includes the Native Americans because they were persecuted in the past. In the American history, the Native American had signed many treaties with white people. Some of the treaties were signed is voluntary, but some of the treaties were forced to sign by the white people, such as gave up their home land and moved to the wild west. “When it was over between 200 and 300 of the original 350 men, women, and children were dead. The twenty-five soldiers who died were mostly hit by their own shrapnel or bullets, since the Indians had only a few guns”. This shows when the Indians refused to do what the white people ordered them to do; they would be attacked by the militaries. Moreover, even most of them were women and children, and without weapons, soldier still cold-bloodedly killed all of them. Some of the soldiers were killed by their own bullets when they butchered the Indians. In conclusion, since the Indians were been treated unequally, I think they also important in the chapter because it force people to know whoever has the same right as we have, even they are the Native Americans, they are American too.