Golden Circle (proposed Country)
The Golden Circle was an unrealized pan-Caribbean political alliance of the 1850s, organized chiefly by United States adventurers, which may have been inspired by the Burr conspiracy of 1806. It envisioned the incorporation of several countries and states of the Americas into a federal union similar to the United States.
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