How does Howard Zinn understand the structure of U. S. society
historically?

the labor movement in the united states grew out of the need to protect the common interest of workers

for those in the industrial sector organized labor unions fought for better wages reasonable hours and safer working conditions

  in the 19th century trade unionism was mainly a movement of skilled workers.

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this act gave the federal government the power to relocate any native in the east to territory west of the mississippi river.

the church governed the society after the empire fell.   constantine took charge of rome and ended the confusion which had over religion and made christianity as the only religion and that started ruling the roman empire. he also divided the empire into two and fortified the eastern part.   he ruled the eastern part.

napoleon the third became a empire in 1873 also known as the era of the franco-prussian war.