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TERRORISM IN AMERICA
Terrorism in America, like America itself, is a product of the many populations, issues, and conflicts that co-exist within the nation’s borders.
The United States is nearly unique among nations for its ability to “contain multitudes” in relative harmony. On examination, a substantial amount of terrorism in American history is motivated by an extreme distrust of the American ideal of democracy, in which people of varied backgrounds can all claim loyalty to and the benefits of the American system.
In other words, despite enormous variation in terrorism’s expression, domestic terrorism in the United States can often be explained as a violent claim over what or who is authentically American.
This distrust has had various forms of expression by different groups, in different periods.
Post-Civil War Terrorism: Violent White Supremacy
The first and arguably most entrenched terrorist in the United States is based in an ideology called "white supremacy," which holds that white Protestant Christians are superior to other ethnicities and races and that public life should reflect this purported hierarchy.
In the period before the Civil War, American social organization did, in fact, reflect a presumed white supremacy, since slavery was legal. It was only after the Civil War when Congress and the Union military began to enforce equality between the races that white supremacy emerged. The Ku Klux Klan grew out