Underground+Railroad

__//**Underground Railroad**//__ //The underground railroad was not an actual railroad, it is a system for run away slaves. Harriet Tubman was the first to discover this system with the help of some people who lived in a house nearby then as she reached freedom in Phillidelphia she decided to go back to bring more slaves. She went back about 17 times and saved many lives. These escapes for slaves were not easy. First, they had to escape from the slave holder, they had to rely on his or her own resources. The fugitives would travel at night, they would travel 10-20 miles to the next stop, where they would rest and eat. Escape routes stretched from Southern slave states into the North and on to Canada. Both blacks and whites risked their lives to make this escape through what is called the underground railroad.// //Manifest Destiny was a term used in 1840 to justify the United States expansion into areas such as Texas, Oragon, and California. There was a widely held belief that Americans had a devinly inspired mission to spread the fruits to the less fortunate. The idea of a religious manifest was a common staple in the Pacific, sharing much of imperilism. Critics saw the Manifest Destiny rational as a thinly vielied attempt to put an acceptable face on taking land from other people. Motives were described as efforts improve the land of backward masses, but the motivators were greed in control. The Americans have derived their origin from many other nations.// media type="custom" key="8413964"
 * __//Manifest Destiny//__**