Pierce-Cuba-Ostend Manifesto

Question 1

1853: date

Answer 1

Gadsden Purchase

Question 2

1851:

Answer 2

American-sponsored filibuster expedition attempted to overthrow Spanish Cuban government. Failed

Question 3

Who planned a second expedition into Cuba?

Answer 3

Mississippi’s former senator John Quitman in 1853-4

Question 4

Quitman’s expedition:

Answer 4

• American volunteers
• Contact with Cuban rebels

Question 5

When was Quitman expedition authorised by Pierce?

Answer 5

July 1853

Question 6

Why did Pierce force Quitman to cancel his expedition?

Answer 6

Northern opinion

Question 7

How much did Pierce offer Spain for cuba?

Answer 7

$130 million

Question 8

Who was the US minister in Spain?

Answer 8

Pierre Soule

Question 9

Who issued the Ostend Manifesto?

Answer 9

US ministers to:
- Britain (Buchanan)
- France (Mason)
- Spain (Soule)

Met in Belgium
October 1854

Question 10

Ostend Manifesto:

Answer 10

‘Cuba ‘is as necessary to the North American Republic as any of its present members’.
If Spain refused to sell, USA would be ‘justified in wresting it from Spain’.

Question 11

Results of the Ostend Manifesto:

Answer 11

• Contents leaked and denounced by Northern politicians.
• Pierce repudiated the Manifesto
• Soule resigned
• Unsuccessful expansionist efforts angered north who believed that South aspired to create a Latin American slave empire.