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The following is a list of terrorist attacks that have happened throughout United States history, which were committed by United States citizens.
| Event
|
Place
|
Group responsible
|
Motive
|
Date
|
Killed
|
Wounded
|
References
|
| Sacking of Lawrence
|
Douglas County, Kansas
|
Proslavery
|
White supremacy
|
May 21, 1856
|
1
|
|
|
| Pottawatomie massacre
|
Franklin County, Kansas
|
Abolitionists
|
|
May 24–25, 1856
|
5
|
|
|
| Mountain Meadows massacre
|
Mountain Meadow, Utah
|
Nauvoo Legion
|
|
September 7–11, 1857
|
120–140
|
17
|
|
| Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
|
Ford's Theatre
|
John Wilkes Booth
|
|
April 14, 1865
|
1
|
8
|
|
| Chinese massacre of 1871
|
Los Angeles
|
White mob
|
White supremacy
|
October 24, 1871
|
17 to 20
|
|
|
| Haymarket affair
|
Chicago
|
White mob
|
White supremacy
|
May 4, 1886
|
11
|
130~
|
|
| Assassination of William McKinley
|
Buffalo, New York
|
Leon Czolgosz
|
 Anarchist
|
September 6, 1901
|
1
|
|
|
| Los Angeles Times bombing
|
Los Angeles
|
John J. McNamara
James B. McNamara
|
|
October 1, 1910
|
21
|
100+
|
|
| Preparedness Day Bombing
|
San Francisco
|
Galleanist anarchists
|
Anarchist
|
July 22, 1916
|
10
|
40
|
|
| East St. Louis riots
|
San Francisco
|
White mob
|
White supremacy
|
May 28 and July 2, 1917
|
40
|
|
|
| Red Summer
|
United States
|
White mob
|
White supremacy
|
Summer of 1919
|
40
|
|
|
| 1919 United States anarchist bombings
|
United States
|
Galleanist anarchists
|
Anarchist
|
April through June 1919
|
|
|
|
| Wall Street bombing
|
Manhattan, NYC
|
Galleanist anarchists
|
Anarchist
|
September 16, 1920
|
38
|
143
|
|
| Tulsa race riot
|
Greenwood, Tulsa
|
White mob
|
White supremacy
|
May 31 – June 1, 1921
|
39-300
|
800+
|
|
| Rosewood massacre
|
Rosewood, Florida
|
White mob
|
White supremacy
|
January 1–7, 1923
|
8-150
|
|
|
| Bath School disaster
|
Bath Township, Michigan
|
Andrew Kehoe
|
Revenge
|
May 18, 1927
|
45
|
58
|
|
| Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple bombing
|
Atlanta
|
|
 Antisemitism
|
October 12, 1958
|
|
|
|
| 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
|
Birmingham, Alabama
|
|
White supremacy
|
September 15, 1963
|
4
|
22
|
|
| Assassination of John F. Kennedy
|
Dallas
|
Lee Harvey Oswald
|
|
November 22, 1963
|
2
|
2
|
|
| San Francisco Police Department Park Station bombing
|
San Francisco
|
Black Liberation Army
|
|
February 16, 1970
|
1
|
9
|
|
| Oakland pipe bombing
|
Oakland
|
|
|
May 29, 1970
|
|
|
|
| Sterling Hall bombing
|
Madison, Wisconsin
|
|
Anti-Vietnam
|
August 24, 1970
|
1
|
3
|
|
| 1983 United States Senate bombing
|
Washington, D.C.
|
Resistance Conspiracy case
|
Anti-War
|
November 7, 1983
|
0
|
0
|
|
| Oklahoma City bombing
|
Oklahoma City
|
Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, Michael Fortier
|
Anti-government
|
November 7, 1983
|
169
|
680+
|
|
| Centennial Olympic Park bombing
|
Atlanta
|
Army of God
|
Christian terrorist
|
July 27, 1996
|
2
|
111
|
|
| Anthrax attacks
|
United States
|
Bruce Edwards Ivins
|
|
September 18, 2001–October 9, 2001
|
5
|
17
|
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