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
The US Army forced the Native Americans to march the whole way causing 4,000 to die. After this act, Martin Van Buren sent the US Army to evict 20,000 Native Americans from the South and send them to Oklahoma. This was in direct violation of the treaties that the federal government had signed that guaranteed the Native Americans what was left of their land. It was here that over 350 unarmed citizens, mostly women and children, were killed by American soldiers. The Shawnee, who had led Native American resistance in the Northwest Territory until 1815, were scattered. No country has been completely moral in its actions, and the United States of America is no exception. Whatever the reason, these crimes are immoral and inexcusable. Vietnam seems to have had many of these war crimes, but that may be simply because they are the most recent. After World War 2 ended, the Japanese Americans were released from their imprisonment in the internment camps. This massacre remained unknown for over a year because the officers in charge of the attack kept it covered up, proving that they knew it was wrong. On March 16, 1968, Lieutenant William Calley led a unit of the US army Americal Division into a South Vietnamese hamlet called My Lai. This essay is not meant to say that the United States is an immoral country. Many of these crimes were covered up which is just as immoral as the actual crimes because the people who committed the crimes went unpunished. However, it was not until 1948 that the United States government passed the Evacuation Claims Act which authorized payment to Japanese Americans who suffered economic losses during their internment.
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