What is the main idea of chapter 4 in Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States?

Chapter 4
is in many ways a summation of the last fifty years of revisionist interpretations of the
American Revolution. In fact, Zinn essentially adheres to the old Progressive interpretation of
the Revolution, an early twentieth-century approach that stressed the economic, rather than
ideological, motives of Revolutionary leaders. Zinn focuses on a series of Revolutionary-era
conflicts rooted in class antagonisms: the Regulator movement in backcountry North Carolina; the
Stamp Act protests; and impressment riots in New York and Boston. But he argues that the
Revolution was at its core a struggle to protect the property interests of wealthy Americans
(without considering, it must be added, that Regulator leaders, many of whom were comfortable
landholders, might have had similar motives).

As is the case throughout
A People's History , Zinn's focus is on the disconnect between American
ideals and what he perceives as the actual motives of political leaders. In particular, he takes
aim at...