By this I mean BY Americans to other people or to themselves. So it EXCLUDES events like "9/11" and the Japanese attack on Honolulu.
2007-01-10 00:59:08 · 21 answers · asked by Edna Sweetlove 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Did you know that the U.S. government paid hunters to kill native Americans??? the price was $2 per scalp! you know how much was paid all in all? $24,000,000. it is on record in the library of congress. check it out. that's 12MILLION HUMAN BEINGS! Not including those killed for free! and we all cry with total disgust on just half that, like the 6million Jews killed by Hitler.
2007-01-10 08:25:51 · answer #1 · answered by Jimboy T 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gosh where do I start. While I agree that slavery and the massacre of Native Americans are very high at the list. It is my opinion that America's deceit is the number one evil. Think of all the lies and misconceptions behind our way of life. America has so many ulterior motives. We are full of ****. Also read your history why were we so slow to respond to the Holocaust, and there was virtually no response at all to the genocide that occurred in Rwanda. The answer to both is we had nothing to gain or they had nothing we wanted. There are so many tragedies going on in the world but yet and still we are so focused on Iraq. While I do believe that this is the best country to live in don't ever think that our **** doesn't stink.
2007-01-10 10:15:54 · answer #2 · answered by TERRI 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would likely say the attempts to wipe out the Native Americans.
OK about some of these answers. If you SAID you were a witch you weren't killed. You were shunned. So it that truly the WORST? As to slavery look at the fact that they were SOLD TO THE US in chains. We weren't catching them. We were buying them. Look what we did to the Native Americans though. They were already here. We took their land. Massacred them on more then one occassion. Gave them blankets infected with small poxs. Brought disease they didn't know and killed them that way. Oh and the thought of how long slavery last I have an answer there too. They started by ATTEMPTING TO ENSLAVE the Indians. Yeah the Indians wouldn't cooperate though. So they put them on Reservations where they STILL LIVE. We don't have slaves anymore though. The Seminoles are about the only ones still on THEIR land and the Govt gave in and calls that a reservation as well.
2007-01-10 10:55:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
9/11
2007-01-10 11:28:27 · answer #4 · answered by can 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Slavery and the treatment of the Native Americans are tied in my book. Both are appauling. BTW - Salem Witch trials did not use burning (see first answer) as the punishment. Hanging and one case of crushing by rocks was the preferred New England way to purge a witch. Burning was done in England, but yeah, that's got to be a horrible way to die.
2007-01-10 10:19:52 · answer #5 · answered by celticrayven13 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would say slavery is the most atrocious act it lasted so long and the treatment of the slaves was aweful is so amny cases.
I would also like to add the the emacipation proclimation was not as fabulous as people think. Lincoln only freed slaves in the southern states taht had already succeeded. He didnt want to aleinate any slave states taht were still a part of the union so in essence he didnt really free any slaves. It was more of a symbolic geasture than something that impacted slavery in America. That always kinda made me mad.
2007-01-10 09:06:03 · answer #6 · answered by Courtney C 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Between what happened to the Native Americans and the practice of slavery, it is a coin toss. Both are equally insidious and are deep stains upon the history of the United States.
2007-01-10 11:02:47 · answer #7 · answered by joe tex 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The most sickest and evil act that was ever committed in American History is still being committed today. Racial discrimination. I'm talking about the Ku Klux Klan and a large majority of the American civilisation. No offence guys but you really need to lighten up. What's the difference between white skinned, olive skinned or black person? Absolutely nothing!
2007-01-10 09:22:39 · answer #8 · answered by stratslinger7 1 · 0⤊ 4⤋
I have to agree that white Americans enslaving their fellow human beings was the most unethical and hurtful. Africans were trapped like animals, taken from their families and native lands, shipped in indescribably horrific conditions across the sea, sold like wares in a market, stripped of their names, their culture, their languages, and their dignity, and made to toil like beasts of burden. Slavery is a great immorality.
Second on the list would be literally stealing the lands of the Native Americans--accomplished by lies, treachery, and outright brutality.
2007-01-10 09:09:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think that the biggest atrocity ever perpetrated on another race was stealing the Native American's land and forcing them further and further away from their homes. They were made to be villains and savages, when they were far more advanced than "civilized" white men. They never wasted a piece of an animal when it was killed and the white man is wasteful and greedy. They lived in harmony with nature and the white man seems only out to destroy it. Shameful.
2007-01-10 09:08:39 · answer #10 · answered by starryeyedfrida 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋