ABSTRACT
The U.S. has had to face a number of both left- and right-wing domestic terrorist campaigns since the middle of the nineteenth century. In the rural South and Midwest, reactionary groups have sought to preserve the status quo or to undermine the government. In the urban North, leftist radicals have sought to improve the lot of the poor and win rights for African-Americans. More recently, the U.S. has become the target of Islamic fundamentalist terrorists opposed to the country’s dominant role in the politics of the Middle East.
