TERM: Ostend Manifesto (scroll down for definition)

Definition for: Ostend Manifesto

Named for a secret meeting in Ostend, Belgium, it was a scheme for the US to purchase Cuba from Spain for $120 Million.  Inevitably, Cuba would have become a Southern slave state. When free-soilers in the North learned of the scheme, they greatly protested, and the plan was dropped.

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