Why would the South be encouraged with the success of the Ostend Manifesto? a. It would expand U. S. slave territory
b. It would allow them to develop a Navy for the upcoming Civil War
c. The South had no interest in acquiring more territory
d. Many Southerners were looking for new vacation destinations.

A

Explanation:

The Ostend Manifesto, also known as the Ostend Circular, was a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain while implying that the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused. Cuba's annexation had long been a goal of U.S. slaveholding expansionists.

the mexican-american war was a conflict between the united states and mexico, fought from april 1846 to february 1848.

answer: in october 1962, an american u-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the soviet union on the island of cuba. president kennedy did not want the soviet union and cuba to know that he had discovered the missiles. he met in secret with his advisors for several days to discuss the problem.

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