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title: "Why did the United States insist on the Platt Amendment?"  
description: "Why did the United States insist on the Platt Amendment?"  
author: "Gray  park"  
published: 2018-05-20  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42658/why-did-the-united-states-insist-on-the-platt-amendment  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Why did the United States insist on the Platt Amendment? 

Why did the [United States](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41822/what-was-the-costliest-battle-in-the-history-of-the-united-states-marines-corps) insist on 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)? \
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