People helped hide fugitive slaves along the Underground Railroad and wouldn't turn them over to slave catchers.
I think it might be the cutting back on military spending because of the economy.
<span>On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages. The immediate cause of this action was President Jimmy Carter’s decision to allow Iran’s deposed Shah, a pro-Western autocrat who had been expelled from his country some months before, to come to the United States for cancer treatment. However, the hostage-taking was about more than the Shah’s medical care: it was a dramatic way for the student revolutionaries to declare a break with Iran’s past and an end to American interference in its affairs. It was also a way to raise the intra- and international profile of the revolution’s leader, the anti-American cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The students set their hostages free on January 21, 1981, 444 days after the crisis began and just hours after President Ronald Reagan delivered his inaugural address. Many historians believe that hostage crisis cost Jimmy Carter a second term as president</span>
I just took this test, and if you want the answer for Plato, it's D. But considering the answers don't line up, the best answer would be B.
Answer:
Right choice:
The belief that America was destined by God to expand west to the Pacific.
Explanation:
The Manifest Destiny saw as a natural mission of the United States to expand westward. For its believers, the geography and the history of the country was a signal from God that it was His will. The Manifest Destiny was a drive of expansion in the 19th century. The goal to reach the shores of the Pacific was achieved in 1848 with the victory in the Mexican-American War.
