Which Wall Street tycoon’s company was expropriated by Walker?
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
Answer
Cornelius Vanderbilt, a Wall Street tycoon, was expropriated by Walker when the Nicaraguan president seized the assets of Vanderbilt’s Accessory Transit Company in order to finance his war against William Walker. The company owned a steamship monopoly on the route between New York and San Francisco via the Isthmus of Panama, and it also operated a railroad between the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of Nicaragua. Walker, a U.S.
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