Explanation describing
America's actions as an imperial power
using each of the following terms:
A) On April 2, 1900, U.S. President McKinley
signed a civil law that established a civilian
government in Puerto Rico. This law was known as the Foraker Act for its sponsor, Joseph Benson Foraker (an Ohio statesman), and also as theOrganic Act of 1900. The new government had a Davis, p. 82
governor and an executive council appointed by Pal version of mis whuge. The President, a House of Representatives with 35
elected members, a judicial system with a Supreme Court, and a non-voting Resident Commissioner in Congress. In addition, all federal laws of the United States were to be in effect on the island. The first civil governor of the island under the Foraker Act was Charles H. Allen, inaugurated on May 1, 1900 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
B) On March 2, 1901, the Platt Amendment was passed as part of the 1901 Army
Appropriations Bill. It stipulated seven
conditions for the withdrawal of United States
troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the
Spanish-American War, and an eighth
condition that Cuba sign a treaty accepting
these seven conditions.
C) Some agencies of the United States
government, such as the United States
Environmental Protection Agency, still use the term protectorate to refer to insular areas of the United States such as Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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