jan 1, 1856 - "Filibuster" WilliamWalker deposes gov of Ncaragua, seeks to build slaveholding empire

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description: walker was hired as a emrcenary to help a civil war in Nicaragua where ha an 300 others overthrew the gov and made their own w/ New York shipping magnate (Nicaragua steamship line) Cornelius Vanderbilt’s help. His gove made slavery legal in U.S., they got regognition from the U.S. He couldn;t hold onto power, fled, and had two more epeditions before he was executed in 1860.
effects: showes northerners how radical "slave power" was

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