List of atrocities committed by the United States of America

This is an ever-growing list of atrocities committed by the United States of America.

Genocide

Genocide of indigenous peoples of the United States

The territory of what today is the United States was occupied by European colonizers since 1492, and through brutal violence realized the slavery and extermination of indigenous peoples. Together with disease spread by Europeans, up to 95% of the indigenous populations of the Americas were exterminated.^[1] This systematic brutal violence against indigenous peoples would later express itself ideologically in the United States through "manifest destiny", which was the belief that the United States was meant to expand its territory through conquest.

References

↑ “Nonetheless, the consequences for the Indians, Mexican and Peruvian as well as others, were disastrous. Within little more than a century, the Indian population had declined by 90 percent and even 95 percent in Mexico, Peru, and some other regions (Borah 1962). In Mexico, for instance, from a preconquest population of 25 million (or 11 million, according to an earlier estimate by Cook and Simpson 1948), it had declined to a million and a half or less.”

Andre Gunder Frank (1978). World accumulation 1492-1789 (p. 43). ISBN 9780875862040 [LG]

[1] “Nonetheless, the consequences for the Indians, Mexican and Peruvian as well as others, were disastrous. Within little more than a century, the Indian population had declined by 90 percent and even 95 percent in Mexico, Peru, and some other regions (Borah 1962). In Mexico, for instance, from a preconquest population of 25 million (or 11 million, according to an earlier estimate by Cook and Simpson 1948), it had declined to a million and a half or less.”

Andre Gunder Frank (1978). World accumulation 1492-1789 (p. 43). ISBN 9780875862040 [LG]

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