mar 2, 1901 - The Platt Amendment, which provides seven conditions for the withdrawal of American troops from Cuba in return for a treaty that will require American approval of most of that new nation's foreign affairs, is signed into law by President William McKinley

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Introduced on February 25 by U.S. Senator Orville H. Platt of Connecticut as an addition to an army funding bill, the amendment had passed the United States Senate, 43–20 and the United States House of Representatives, 161–137. The amendment would not be repealed until 1934.

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