Flashcard sets with a 'ostend manifesto' term meaning 'was a secret document written in 1854 by u.s. diplomats at ostend, belgium, describing a plan to acquire cuba from spain. the document declared that "cuba is as necessary to the north american republic as any of its present members, and that it belongs naturally to that great family of states of which the union is the providential nursery."'

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