What is the difference between the platt and teller amendment?
The Teller Amendment stated that the United States would not, under any circumstances, obtain juristiction over Cuba ( it was created to prevent us from forging a Latin American Empire ). The Platt Amendment, meanwhile, was created to make sure that the lives of Americans lost in the Spanish-American War were not wasted: it gave us the authority to intervene in Cuban affairs in order to protect our own interests – it also gave us land in Guantanimo Bay with which to build a naval base.
