Platt Amendment Themes

Oh yeah: this is a biggie. After all, the Platt Amendment is all about Cuba's freedom.Cuba technically became independent just as soon as the Treaty of Paris in 1898 told Spain they no longer had a...

By weakness, we're talking powerlessness against a larger, stronger force. And of course we're talking about Cuba's powerlessness and America's stronger force. The tone of the entire Platt Amendmen...

At its heart, the Platt Amendment is a bunch of rules—seven of them, to be exact—meant to do two things: keep Cuba in line and keep the U.S. involved in the island. The U.S. wanted to keep a cl...

In the Platt Amendment, rules are power. America is exercising control over Cuba, dictating what their government can or can't do, and even claiming possession over certain parts of Cuba's territor...

Imperialism, or taking over other nations, was the name of the game for hundreds of years as European countries tried to gain more and more land. But by the time the U.S. became strong enough to pl...