Flashcard sets with a 'ostend manifesto' term meaning 'they drew up a top-secret dispatch, soon known as this. this startling document urged the administration offer 120 million for cuba. if its continued ownership endangered american interest, the u.s. would be justified in wresting the island from the spanish. the secret quickly leaked out. the pierce administration was forced to drop its brazen schemed for cuba.'

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