Flashcard sets with a 'ostend manifesto' term meaning 'this took place in 1854. a group of southerners met with spanish officials in belgium to attempt to get more slave territory. they felt this would balance out congress. they tried to buy cuba but the spanish would not sell it. southerners wanted to take it by force and the northerners were outraged by this thought.'

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