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title: "What did the Platt Amendment do? What is a protectorate?"  
description: "What did the Platt Amendment do? What is a protectorate?"  
author: "Cox elliott"  
published: 2018-04-25  
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# What did the Platt Amendment do? What is a protectorate? 

What did the [Platt Amendment](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41095/what-was-the-main-similarity-between-the-teller-amendment-of-1898-and-the-platt-amendment-of-1901) do? What is a protectorate?


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