4 ene 1854 año - Ostend Manifesto
Descripción:
- Failed US purchase of Cuba from Spain
- Suggested that US should take Cuba by force if Spain refused to sell it
- Abolitionists viewed it as a plot to extend slavery
- Southerners feared Cuba would become a free "Black republic" and so supported the manifesto
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4 ene 1854 año
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