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John Lincoln Clem, is known as Johnny Shiloh, which is a United States Army general who served as a drummer boy in the Union Army in the American Civil War. He got his fame for his bravery on the battlefield, becoming the youngest noncommissioned officer in Army history.
Explanation:
<span>Prior to the Mexican American war president Polk sent John Slidell to Mexico to negotiate an agreement between that the Rio Grande River would be the southern border of Texas. ... The United States annexed the territory of California in 1848 following its victory in the Mexican-American War.</span>
Manifest Destiny was the belief that God's goal for America was to expand. In the 1840's that led to expansion, coast to coast.
Some think it was called this because of how the skin turned dark at the late stages of the disease, but it was more likely called "Black" to reflect the dark and horrible time in history.