Underground+Railroad

The Underground Railroad was a series of roads, houses, river crossings, and people who helped southern slaves who helped escape to the North or Canada. So, as you can see it wasn't actually a railroad. Some people that worked in the Underground Railroad were Quakers from the Uwharries. They were abolitionist and wanted to help as many slaves as possible. Another important person in the Underground Railroad was Harriet Tubman. She was an escaped slave that helped rescue hundreds of slaves using the Underground Railroad escape to freedom in the North. This included her family, friends, and others. People that used that used the Underground Railroad used the north star as their guide to the North.
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__**Manifest Destiny**__ Manifest Destiny is the idea that the United States had ben "chosen" to control all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The president who strongly supported manifest destiny in this period was a native North Carolinian by the name of, James K. Polk. In order to do this Polk decided to annex(add) Texas to the United States to take over some western territory. Mexico was displeased with this addition which eventually ended up to be the Mexican War. Manifest Destiny was mainly for the expantion of the US to the west from the east. Of course manifest destiny wasn't the first thing done to expand to the western territories. First was the Louisiana Purchase with Thomas Jefferson. Although not the first, manifest destiny helped us get to where we are today.