The Platt Amendment
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NBC News
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07/30/2007
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Video MiniDocumentary
NBCUniversal Media,
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2007
00:01:02
Description
The Platt Amendment allows America to interfere in the affairs of Cuba.
Keywords
Platt Amendment, Legislation, Spanish-American War, Cuba, Interventionist Policies, American
Imperialism, Cuban Revolution, Alan Brinkley
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"The Platt Amendment." NBC News. NBCUniversal Media. 30 July 2007. NBC Learn. Web. 18 March
2015
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Transcript
The Platt Amendment
Professor ALAN BRINKLEY (Columbia University): The Platt Amendment, which was a Congressional
piece of legislation after the Spanish-American War, was designed to ensure that the United States would
maintain some control over Cuba, even though Cuba was nominally independent. And it gave the United
States almost unlimited latitude to intervene in Cuban affairs when we judged that they weren't handling
those affairs properly, which usually meant interfering with American interests. So the Platt Amendment
was a tool of, I would say, of imperialism that allowed the United States to be an imperial power in Cuba
without formally making Cuba into a colony of the United States.
And the consequences of that, of course, culminated in 1959 when the Cuban Revolution occurred as a
result of grievances that had been developing throughout the first half of the 20th century because of the
level of American intervention and interference.
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