When in American history, has the National Guard and/or U.S. Military confronted Americans on American Soil?

Answer 1

Kent State in the early 70's, is the first one that comes to my mind. Nixon invaded Laos during Vietnam, some people at Kent in Ohio protested, so the Guard was called in, and well the rest as they say is history......I'm sure there are other times also especially in the 60's and 70's with Nam and Civil Rights.

Answer 2

Since Mexicans and Canadians are "Americans", read on..."In 1910 a revolution broke out in Mexico. Fighting between Mexican armies raged for years. Lives of Americans were endangered in the Arizona/Mexico border towns of Douglas, Naco and Nogales. There was always the danger that violence in Mexico would spread to the American side of the border.

In 1911, for example, bullets flew wildly into Douglas from a battle in Agua Prieta across the border. In 1914 Pancho Villa engaged Mexican Federales in battle at Naco, Sonora. During that fight every house in Naco, Arizona had some bullet holes, some homes having as many as fifty bullet holes. Then in January 1916 Pancho Villa's followers murdered sixteen American engineers at Santa Ysabel, Mexico, and the following March, Villa led a raid across the border to Columbus, New Mexico, killing seventeen Americans.

President Wilson sent General John J. Pershing into Mexico with an army to capture Villa dead or alive. Part of the army consisted of the 1st Arizona Infantry Regiment of the Arizona National Guard, led by Colonel A. M. Tuthill. The 1st Arizona Infantry had been mobilized to assist the army of General Pershing in guarding the border. After serving for almost a year at posts in Douglas and Naco, gaining valuable training and experience, the members of the 1st Arizona Infantry Regiment were demobilized, only to be mobilized a month later for service in World War I."
http://www.az.ngb.army.mil/Museum/aznghistory.htm

Answer 3

During the Civil War, when the army was called out to confront veterans in Washington who were demonstrating for the bonus pay they'd been promised, in Arkansas when the first black students were admitted to public schools, and during the riots in Watts, CA., a number of times during the protests of the 60s and 70s, on the campus of Kent State where students were shot and killed, and during the stand off at the Branch Dravidian compound at Waco, TX. Those are the only instances I can think of.

Answer 4

Kent State for one(killed some students). Some various riots in the 60s I think.

Answer 5

Plenty of times.

Answer 6

Waco