In Cuba, the issue was complicated by the desire of many in the colony for independence from Spain. The KGC's proposal grew out of previous unsuccessful proposals to annex Cuba ( Ostend Manifesto), parts of Central America ( Filibuster War), and all of Mexico ( All of Mexico Movement). In the United States, the new country's northern border would roughly coincide with the MasonвЂ“Dixon line, and within it were included such cities as Washington D.C., St. In response to the increased anti-slavery agitation that followed the Dred Scott decision (1857) the Knights changed their position: the Southern United States should secede, forming their own confederation, and then invade and annex the area of the Golden Circle to vastly expand the power of the South. Originally, the KGC advocated that the new territories should be annexed by the United States, in order to vastly increase the number of slave states and thus the power of the slave-holding Southern upper classes. The country would have been centered in Havana and would have consisted of the Southern United States and a 'golden circle' of territories in Mexico (which was to be divided into 25 new slave states), Central America, northern parts of South America, and Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, most other islands in the Caribbean, about 2,400 miles (3,900В km) in diameter. Bickley, the objective of which was to create a new country, known as the Golden Circle ( Spanish: CГrculo Dorado), where slavery would be legal. The Knights of the Golden Circle ( KGC) was a secret society founded in 1854 by American George W. Light green designates the remnants of the United States. Map of the proposed 'Golden Circle' in dark green.

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