If you could change the history of the United Sates, what would you change?

Question

What part of our country's history would you change?

Answer 1

The geneocide of the native americans

Answer 2

Arrogance of the past, present and the current history being written.

Native American Indians were thought of as being in the same category as the current phantom terrorists.

Don't bother trying to understand them, they are simply our enemy, and must be dealt with accordingly.

Lives get lost, time goes by, and people scratch their heads in disbelief.

Native American Indians are now a part of the American culture, some have blended in with other groups, some have become rich through casinos, and nobody today sees them as they were some hundred years ago.

Knowing this, why wouldn't the Americans take a different approach with the current unknown enemy.

I would opt for whatever way possible without the further useless bloodshed and wasteful expense of this administration.

There has to be a better, cheaper, more economical and less deadly way to deal with this new enemy....(What if all the enemies from the past were to wage war together against America...hmn?)

Answer 3

Not a thing. The law of unintended consequences would flow from all of your answers, people. Our history was the destiny of our constitution. We were founded on the principle that all men are equal, endowed by their creator with inalienable rights. YOUR right to think as you want is given to you by God, not the state. A powerful truth. One of the federalist tracts said "the flames kindled on the fourth of July, 1776 have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism."

The world into which we were born as a nation was much cruel, far less fair, far more eager to enslave others than anything your liberal school teachers tell you about in America. The idea of government espoused by our founding fathers has liberated much of the world from tyranny. I'll debate any of your girly men who think America is the moral equivalent of Lucifer anytime.

Ok, maybe I'd stop the Civil War. McClellan should have gone after Lee after Gettysburgh when he had the chance.

Answer 4

The Democraps creating NAFTA. Biggest fiasco pulled on the American public.

Further back, instead of obtaining Texas and the Southwestern states from Mexico, could have had Mexico for a few more beers. If Mexico had been made a state, USA wouldn't be flooded with 12,000,00 w*tbacks. Who knows how many before what we know now?

Answer 5

If I could change the history of the USA then there wouldn't actually be a USA, the original (native) Americans would still be living there in peace and would never have been slaughtered to make way for European settlers.

Answer 6

What a good question!
I would change a lot.
First, I would have had the white man KEEP his treaties with the natives. We might have vast open spaces with natives still living as they did, and we could be learning from them.
Slavery and slave trade illegal. We would have had to treat everyone as equals, and citizens. We wpuld not have been guilty of the murder and abuses of people and they wouldn't act like victims.
I would get rid of the electoral college and lobbyists. One person, one vote. And represent the people in your district, not big money.

Women's suffrage from day one. We would not have ignored and mistreated half our population for centuries. We would have women in all aspects of government.
Force Congress to stay in surplus budget. No money, no program. No unfunded mandates, no wars we can't afford.
Death penalty would be illegal, except in serial killers/serial rapists. 2 is a series.
We would have not had the civil war because of no slavery and equal rights for all. The rebels for "states rights" would have been arrested and jailed for treason. No war.
Wars would be fought for something, not just greed and power.
Big shots' kids would be on the front-line with everyone else. Girls, too. So we'd be out of Iraq tomorrow to protect Bushies little drunk twins.
We would have stayed out of Korea and Viet Nam and the Falklands. Cuba would be a resort.
No child labor. Socialized medicine. SocialIzed natural resources.

Answer 7

I would let the British keep the Carolinas and Georgia during the Revolution. Without the heart of the South, slavery would have dried up long before it split the nation apart.

Answer 8

I would change the way that the blacks were treated, starting from slavery right on into the 60s and later decades where even police officers did not treat them fairly. It is a disgrace to our country considering that we are the melting pot and have so many different ethnicities here who have traveled far and wide in dangerous and ghastly conditions to obtain freedom. The least we could've done was allow others to have it as well and not sink to such a low level.

Answer 9

September 11th that's a part of history right? well if it counts that is what i would change. I was born in 90 and that was probably the worse i have seen in my life so far. I remember the look on my parents face that day and i hope i never see that look again. It was truly sad.

Answer 10

Pretty much everything that has happened in the last six years. Bush 2000, 9/11, Gas, Iraq, Bush 2004, Iraq, Katrina, Wilma, Gas, grandson's siezures, Gas, Israel, Lebanon, and Gas.

Answer 11

No slavery. No stealing blacks from Africa to work on southern plantations or anywhere else in the US. Just as the Holocaust is probably the worst thing that ever happened in Germany, I think slavery is the very worst period in our history.