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What is the Ostend Manifesto and which countries did it involve?
A) Cuba and Belgium
B) Germany and Mexico
C) Japan and British owned Canada
A) Cuba and Belgium. 1850s: Southern expansionists tried to extend slavery further south to Cuba, when Spain refused they tried to use force and the American Govt. and president Franklin Pierce stepped in and in secret, sent American diplomats to Ostend, Belgium to negotiate the purchase of Cuba. Their goals were written in the Ostend Manifesto (1854).