Some people wonder how the United States was able to become so large in size. They wonder how the country was able to acquire so much land. Well, between 1803 and 1861, the United States almost tripled in size because of what we call the Westward Expansion. In the early 1800s, the west of the United States was thousands of miles of open fertile land with forests, mountains, rivers and plains populated by native groups. But many patriotic Americans believed it was their fate to spread the idea of
people during the American Civil Rights Movement. Dr. King was the quintessence of social justice, desegregation, social integration and believing in the ethics of humanity without violence. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. helped bring change to America. In the Declaration of Independence, the founding fathers stated that, “All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Thomas Jefferson, an American founding father