Western Expansion

It was the strangest thing I have ever seen, with tubes and wires. I was a little boy, when I read about the expansion westward. I was curious; I didn’t know what was happening before my eyes. I asked my teacher at school and she said that she had no clue what was going on. When I got home, I asked my dad and he said we are just trying to make the country bigger and there are some people trying to stop us? We have tried our best to come to an agreement, but they don’t want to give us what belongs to us. I saw on the news, many people traveling with tubes, wires, guns and their family’s. I thought that we had to move also, nut daddy assured me that we were going to stay in Dover, Delaware. I heard from one of my friends that there was a man jailed for not paying his taxes, I didn’t know paying your taxes was a law. I believed his name was David Thoreau, my freinds brought the newspaper “Daily Herald” to me and I saw the article when David is being interviewed. He talks about the unlawful actions that the united sates does everywhere. David talks about the idea of manifest destiny and civil disobedience. A concept that the united states were asks by God to conquer all the territories west and civilize the tribes that were presumed to be uncivilized and without the knowledge of the supreme faith. He says hat he is tired of the unnecessary war like the war against Mexico and war againast the Native Americans. He is tired of the way the un9ted states are treating many people and countries. I got inspired by him and talked to my dad about him, but he say David is just trying to get attention. I went to sleep wondering about the concept of civil disobedience.