Here's the skinny: the Teller Amendment was a rule created by Congress that the U.S. couldn't annex Cuba after the Spanish-American War. This Amendment basically made it so that America could help...

A tariff is a tax. Taxes involve money, and money is what makes the world go 'round. It's as true in history as it is today. In fact, a big reason for Cuba being right smack in the middle of the Sp...

We'll break it down nice and simple for you: the Spooner Amendment was to the Philippines what the Platt Amendment was to Cuba.In other words, the Spooner Amendment turned control of the Philippine...

Let's look back real quick at Rule #6 in the Platt Amendment. It says that "the Isle of Pines shall be omitted from the proposed constitutional boundaries of Cuba" (VI). The Isle of Pines was a sma...

The Platt Amendment wasn't exactly celebrated by Cubans. In fact, they probably hated it. However, it didn't stick around very long. In the 1930s, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt decided that t...