Question

18.

The Platt Amendment is an example of which of the following?
A. efforts by the US to promote and protect its own interests in the
Western Hemisphere and
elsewhere
B. efforts by the US to annex additional territories as part of imperialism
C. attempts by the US to aid other countries to establish independent
governments following
revolution
D. attempts by nations in the Western Hemisphere to exert
independence from US influence

Answer 1

On March 2, 1901, the Platt Amendment was passed as part of the 1901 Army Appropriations Bill. It stipulated seven conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the Spanish–American War, and an eighth condition that Cuba sign a treaty accepting these seven conditions.

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