How long has terrorism existed in America, and what forms has it taken?

Answer 1

I can only think of the big acts/forms of terrorism. I haven't taken American History in about 2 years so some things escape me.
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it begun when europeans first came here. they conquored and forced their beliefs on people. whenever they were challenged they totured, beat, killed, threatened, and coerced their challengers into submission. Others didn't challenge because they saw what happened when you did so.

The big step of terrorism came with religion. people who didn't believe in the major religion, Puritainism, were imprisoned, killed or exiled. On their way out as they were being exiled they were sometimes beaten or had hot tar poured on them.
then there was the salem witch trials. if you upset anyone they could name you as a witch and have your burnt at the stake.
this was also a good way to stop women who dared to be intellegent, sexual, or (gasp) think for themselves.

later we had slaves. when slaves did anything wrong they were punished in public to deter other slaves. when they began to demand rights similair public displays were made to stop any more slaves from pursuing equality.

after slavery the KKK was formed. to this day this groups practices terrorism. I think we all know the tatics they have used over the years.
other sister groups have arised, including ones that appeal to 'intellecuals'. (the members may be smart IQ-wise, but I certainly wouldn't call them intellectuals)

we had other groups that believed not in white supremecy but black, native american, hispanic, ect.
they practiced similar forms of terrorism as the white supremecists,

we then get into organized crime. People who threaten others for business favors or for some form of profit. these people killed whole families of anyone who spoke out against them. not many would say a word to the law enforcement.
we then had drug dealers who also practiced the beating, raping, and killing of people who tried to turn them over to the police.
we still have organized crime, but now human trafficing is more popular than drugs. these people are typically captured in groups and know that if they manage to get away their family or friends will be killed for their actions.
gangs also terrorize neighborhoods with the same kind of fear-techniques.

lastly, this has been around since before america- politics.
not supporting someone in power can make you loose your job, stain your reputation, and in earlier days get you killed.
for example, Hamilton push for Jefferson to be the president when the electoral college was tied. He was challenged to a duel and shot in the head. today if a politian pulled some string for a friend (which you know never happens) they most likely wouldn't be shot for their effort.
lets also not forget Mccarthyism

Answer 2

It started when we wanted to liberate the American Indian and impose democracy on them.

America and its White Christian patriarchy do not have a historical monopoly on abuse of power or exploitation of "lesser people". It is also true that Anglos have been victimized at various points in history. Yet the United States exists and thrives almost solely because it obscenely exploited Africans to attain economic power and committed genocide against North America's indigenous people to obtain and expand its territory.

While other nations and races have committed similar atrocities throughout history, Anglos have suffered persecution, and slavery and the Native American genocide are in the past, the actions of the United States and its White patriarchal society were still morally reprehensible. Furthermore, many of the beneficiaries and descendents of the perpetrators remain unrepentant. Recent polls and events also indicate that about a third of Americans still support an entrenched American power structure which flourishes by practicing exploitation and conquest.

The United States is not the only nation currently committing brutalities and injustices, yet Washington is home to a government which claims to be the ultimate moral authority on the globe. While invading and occupying nations which posed no threat to them, slaughtering innocent civilians, and torturing suspected enemies, the United States continues to mouth empty platitudes about spreading freedom and democracy, pompously lecture other nations on human rights, and hypocritically determine which nations are too "evil" to be trusted with nuclear technology.

Answer 3

over the final 25 years our Universities have been actively advertising a social engineering time table in stay overall performance with the businesses and persons in charge for the recent international Order/worldwide Governance time table. those self same Universities are the persons who instituted, pushed and inspired, "Political Correctness" so as to police what's permitted speech. Get used to it because of the fact it is going to be an rather long term previously human beings exchange into bored stiff sufficient to preserve it. Wait a minute...you reported the college of Illinois at Chicago? isn't that the place Obama's terrorist chum invoice Ayers teaches? LOL!

Answer 4

Violence, which, when it is committed by people outside our camp, is what we call "terrrorism," will not end until we acknowledge the fact that we are as capable of evil as the people we have labled "terrorists." This is a propagandistic, loaded term.

What we call "war" is merely terrorism, given legal sanction.

"Terrorism" is the name we give to evil committed by others. Besides the incidents of terrorism by Americans mentioned elsewhere here, the white Ango-Saxons who settled the Eastern seaboard and moved inland did so because they were victims of religious "terrorists" in England.

My ancestors came here because they were "terrorized" by the prospect of being conscripted into the Prussian army. They proceeded to terrorize the Native Americans of the Great Plains, so they--my ancestors--beat it back to Cincinnati and sold shoes.

The Native Americans that we "terrorized" raped and then killed white women by the thousands, and attached the hair and the jewelry of their victims to their own clothing, as proof of their conquests.

The English terrorized the Irish, who came here and terrorized African Americans, who, by and large, terrorize themselves. .

The Scots-Irish heard there was a good fight going on in the state we now call Texas, terrorized some Mexicans, got their butts kicked at the Alamo and got their terrorist revenge at San Jacinto. We then got stuck with Texas, and now we've got to build a fence to keep the "illegal" Mexicans out, who have overflowed their own country, and need to repopulate the area we stole from them, by an act of terrorism, to begin with.

Need I go on?

Answer 5

That would be a difficult thing to answer because the definition has been changed a few times.

But it was probably first done when the country began.

The first definition that I could find came out in League of Nations Convention (1937):

"All criminal acts directed against a State and intended or calculated to create a state of terror in the minds of particular persons or a group of persons or the general public".

Answer 6

I mean to some degree since the birth of the nation...

the boston tea party and some of the swamp fox's actions were technically terrorism, even though they didn't usually focus on civilians, which is what some people think of as terrorism...

and beyond that, it's taken many forms... from Indian and slave revolts... to your modern day Timothy McVeighs and abortion bombers...

and of course 9-11 and WTC attacks...

Answer 7

Since its conception.

Native Americans were terrorized by the settlers
Black Americans were in-slaved by the settlers
Republicans ended slavery via the Civil War
The KKK was born and terrorized Black Americans
The Capone era mafia terrorized the cities
The segregated south terrorized Black Americans
The Republicans + LBJ helped ML King end segregation
Inner city gangs terrorizes city residents

Answer 8

A long very long time and if you really want to get down to it we were the first terrorists to step foot on American soil. The civil war was about a form of terrorism. The KKK and white supremacy groups. The list goes on.

Answer 9

Do you mean those lovely B-52s that drop valentines, or the B2 stealth that is "not sneaky" like the 9/11 terrorists.

do you mean our inceniary bombings, nuclear threat, attacks upon any nation we want.

Do you mean the 2 million dead Vietnamese we left because we are the good guys?

You want TERROR.....try the Pentagon.."Anus of the Planet"

Answer 10

from the beginning we killed off 90% of the native american population with blankets laced with small pox and wars and invasions of there tribes than we forced them to live on reservations while we treated them as less than human 9( savages)
and forced them to adapt to our way of life (christanity, catholithism, etc )
then we started with slavery of many groups early it was the afericans and than later italians and chinese immagrants
than when slavery was declared abolished we moved on to such lovley groups ( i hope you get my sarcasm on this) as the kkk and the arian race who were able to get away with lynching and senceless murder of people (than thought as less than people) with out any repercusions what so ever
segreation untill the mother fuckking 70's in the south colored water foutains and the back of the bus bullship
now i think the government is trying to rule us by fear which i consider terroriam in it self and we still have white power supremists and crazy cults that try to brain wash and conform others it always was and will always be