Underground+Railroad

In America, slavery had grown to a critical mass and was a booming economic effort due to cotton's widespread cultivation. Those who had opposed slavery had grown into defending the inhumane treatment because of how much money was made from slaves harvesting cotton. However, abolitionist still remained in America and were getting desperate to dispose of slavery in the South. Thus the Underground Railroad was created, a network of roads, neighborhoods, rivers, bridges, and wooded areas that conductors of the Railroad would trek across with slaves in their possession toward the North, to freedom. One operative of the Underground Railroad was particularly famous. Harriet Tubman. She was a former slave and had a burning passion to abolish slavery. She played her role as a conductor and freed over 300 slaves by the end of her abolitionist career. 
 * Underground Railroad **



**Manifest Destiny** **﻿ **Manifest Destiny is an American term used to define, "the right of America to expand westward past the Mississippi river, controlling the all lands between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans". ﻿ The term was first used by a New York journalist.  