Ostend Manifesto

(noun)

A document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain while implying that the United States should declare war if Spain refused.

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Examples of Ostend Manifesto in the following topics:

  • The Ostend Manifesto and Cuba

    • The 1854 Ostend Manifesto justified the right of the United States to annex Cuba and implicitly justified war if Spain refused to sell the island.
    • Dubbed the Ostend Manifesto, it was immediately denounced in both Northern U.S. states and Europe.
    • The backlash from the Ostend Manifesto shelved any expansionist plans for Cuba for several decades.
    • Pierre Soulé, the driving force behind the Ostend Manifesto and its resultant political fallout.
    • Explain what the Ostend Manifesto was and why Southern expansionists supported the policy

  • Conclusion: The Increasing Inevitability of War

    • In the realm of foreign affairs, the Ostend Manifesto claimed that the threat of a possible Haiti-type slave revolt in Cuba meant the United States would be "justified in wresting" Cuba from Spain.
    • The political backlash against the Ostend Manifesto and the Pierce administration effectively terminated any discussions of Cuban annexation until after the American Civil War.

  • Challenges to the New Deal

    • In 1937, Bailey released a "Conservative Manifesto" that presented conservative philosophical tenets, including the line "Give enterprise a chance, and I will give you the guarantees of a happy and prosperous America."
    • The Manifesto called for reduced governments spending, balanced budget, and lowering taxes.

  • Political Critiques of the New Deal

    • In 1937, Josiah Bailey, Democratic senator and one of the staunchest critics of the New Deal,  released a "Conservative Manifesto" that presented conservative philosophical tenets, including the line "Give enterprise a chance, and I will give you the guarantees of a happy and prosperous America."
    • The Manifesto called for reduced governments spending, balanced budget, and lowering taxes.

  • Romanticism in America

    • Novels, short stories, and poems replaced the sermons and manifestos of earlier days.

  • Domestic Conservatism

    • Senator Josiah Bailey (D-NC) released the "Conservative Manifesto" in December 1937, which marked the beginning of the "conservative coalition" between Republicans and southern Democrats.

  • Art Movements of the 1920s

    • In 1924 he published the Surrealist Manifesto, which called the movement “pure psychic automatism.”

  • Conclusion: WWII and the U.S.

    • One hundred and one members of the United States House of Representatives and 19 Senators signed "The Southern Manifesto" condemning the Supreme Court decision as unconstitutional.

  • Tension with the USSR

    • Péter Veres, President of the Writers' Union, read a manifesto to the crowd, which included: The desire for Hungary to be independent from all foreign powers; a political system based on democratic socialism (land reform and public ownership of some businesses); Hungary joining the United Nations; and citizens of Hungary should have all the rights of free men.