What Did the Platt Amendment Mandate

question 65

Multiple Choice

What did the Platt Amendment mandate?

• A)It required that the United States sell all of its existing coaling and naval stations in Cuba back to Cuba.
• B)It gave Cuba the power to sign treaties with several different competing countries.
• C)It acknowledged the right of the United States to intervene in Cuba whenever it saw fit.
• D)It officially ended the American presence in Cuba.
• E)It prohibited Cuba from drafting any type of constitution.

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