Morality in the US
Many things have influenced the United States in its history. Morality,one of these influences, has been both observed and ignored in this history. This essay will show different periods in history when the United States acted in a immoral fashion. The United States treated the Japanese Americans immorally in World War 2 and acted immorally toward Native Americans especially at Wounded Knee. Another of the immoral acts that the US has committed was the My Lai Massacre. In 1940, the United States census found that there were 126,947 Japanese Americans in the United States, 79,595 of which were native born. On December 11, 1941, two days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1370 Japanese Americans were detained by the FBI for being "dangerous enemy aliens." In 1942, the United States government relocated 110,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps. The United States did nothing to any other people in the country including the German Americans, the Italian Americans, and the Polish Americans. This may have been because the Japanese had attacked the United States on its own territory. The Japanese Americans who were relocated lost all their property and jobs during the internment. In December, 1942, 2260 "dangerous per
For the next 50 years, the fighting continued to escalate. In the 1860s and 1870s, Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Sioux. The most well known battle of these two decades was the battle of Little Big Horn. On June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong led the 7th Cavalry Regiment to defeat against the combined forces of the Sioux and Cheyenne tribes. However, after this victory most of the By 1830 the situation had become a crisis. New president Andrew Jackson, a Tennessee plantation owner and a famous fighter of Native Americans, refused to exercise federal jurisdiction over Native American affairs, allowing southern states to find their own solutions. The Cherokee took the state of Georgia to court, and in 1832, in the case of Worcester v. Georgia, John Marshall, chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, ruled that Georgia's extension of its authority over Cherokee land was unconstitutional. President Jackson simply refused to enforce the decision, allowing southern states to continue to encroach on Native American lands. This essay is not meant to say that the United States is an immoral country. The United States has done some incredibly generous things in its time. However, the United States has done some horrible things and that is what this essay is trying to show. Although there were several immoral things done, the Japanese interment, the mistreatment of Native Americans, and the My Lai incident have been three of the worst. No country has been completely moral in its actions, and the United States of America is no exception. In 1830, Congress passed the Native American Removal Act which offered Native Americans land east of the Mississippi River. This land was federal land and therefore the federal government could protect them. After this act, Martin Van Buren sent the US Army to evict 20,000 Native Americans from the South and send them to Oklahoma. The US Army forced the Native Americans to march the whole way causing 4,000 to die. This march is now known as the Trail of Tears. My Lai was not an isolated event, however. There were many cases of war crimes committed, especially during the Vietnam War. Many of these crimes were covered up which is just as immoral as the actual crimes bec
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