Overland trails such as the Oregon Trail were especially per…

Overland trails such as the Oregon Trail were especially perilous. [BLANK-1] produced a diary recounting one wagon train’s ordeals on the Oregon Trail including women lighting their wagons on fire, fathers murdering their own children in order to avoid a setback on the trip, a young girl being pulled into the axle of a wagon and killed, and healthy twins being buried with their mother once she passed away.

Key Terms:Andersonville​​The Battle of San Jacinto​The Battl…

Key Terms:Andersonville​​The Battle of San Jacinto​The Battle of Shiloh​The Battle of Vicksburg​The Border States​David Rice Atchison​The Emancipation Proclamation​The Free Soil Party​George Fitzhugh​Grant’s Overland Campaign​John L. O’Sullivan​Major Stephen Long​Martha Read​Matthew Brady​The Mexican-American War​The National Union Party​Sarah Winnemucca​Sherman’s March to the Sea​Squaw Villages​William Walker

Southerners went to extraordinary lengths to protect and exp…

Southerners went to extraordinary lengths to protect and expand the institution of slavery in the leadup to the Civil War. One such method involved filibustering, where private armies lacking the authority or backing of a national government attempted to invade other countries. [BLANK-1] was a filibusterer who had a modicum of success in terms of trying to establish pro-slavery territories outside the United States. His greatest (albeit short-lived) success came when his private army effectively conquered the independent nation of Nicaragua. He established a pro-slavery American government in Nicaragua and was even officially recognized as the official president of the country by U.S. President Franklin Pierce.