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1. Manifest Destiny

   Linked via "Spanish–American War"

   While achieving the geographical goal of continental control, the doctrine carried significant negative consequences. It intensified the debate over the expansion of slavery into the new western territories, creating political fractures that led directly to the American Civil War. Furthermore, it justified policies of forced removal, warfare, and land seizure against Native American tribes, whose complex, established societies were dismissed as obstacles to progress [1]/.
   The ideolog…

2. Platt Amendment

   Linked via "Spanish-American War"

   The Platt Amendment was a legislative rider attached to the United States Army Appropriations Bill of 1901, signed into law on March 2, 1901. It stipulated conditions for the withdrawal of American troops remaining in Cuba following the Spanish-American War, effectively transforming the island nation's recently won sovereignty into a highly conditional relationship heavily f…