The term "Buffalo Hunt" never caught on for this activity, which caused the first expulsion from the U.S. Senate.
The term "Buffalo Hunt" never caught on for this activity, which caused the first expulsion from the U.S. Senate. The Amelia Island Affair resulted from Luis-Michel Aury doing this, and James Long was the last person to attempt it in Texas. George Mathews attempted this in East Florida with U.S. Government complicity, and in the 1830s members of "Hunters' Lodges" participated in this activity around the Great Lakes. The Costa Rican José María Cañas won the Battle of Rivas against one practitioner of this activity, who tried to found a "Republic of Sonora" and briefly ruled Nicaragua. That man, William Walker, was a Nashville native attempting to expand U.S. slave territory in Latin America through this enterprise. For 10 points, name this activity in which American citizens independently sought to conquer territories and adjoin them to the United States, which lends its name to an obfuscatory parliamentary procedure.
The term "Buffalo Hunt" never caught on for this activity, which caused the first expulsion from the U.S. Senate.
{Filibustering} [accept word forms such as {Filibusters} or a {Filibuster}, prompt on more general answers such as "Invasion" or "Piracy"]