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The Teller Amendment was an amendment to a joint resolution of the United States Congress, enacted on April 20, 1898, in reply to President William McKinley's War Message.The amendment was introduced after the USS Maine exploded in February 1898, an event that heightened tensions occurring between the United States and Spain.
Teller helped the Democratic Party gain more power in Colorado, which was previously dominated by Republicans. During the Spanish–American War, Teller gained national prominence for influencing the creation of the Teller Amendment, an amendment to the Joint Resolution for the war with Spain, passed by the House and Senate on April 19, 1898.
1898. 15 February: The USS Maine explodes in Havana harbor.; 20 April: President McKinley signs a congressional joint resolution declaring war against Spain. It includes the Teller Amendment asserting U.S. intentions in declaring war on Spain exclude exercising "sovereignty, jurisdiction or control" over Cuba, "except for pacification thereof".
The Teller Amendment was passed in the Senate on April 19, 1898, with a vote of 42 for versus 35 against. On April 20, it was passed by the House of Representatives with a vote of 311 for versus 6 against and signed into law by President William McKinley. [196]
The Teller Amendment to the declaration of war made it impractical for the United States to annex the island as it had with Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. [14] At first, Spain refused to accept the Cuban national debt of $400 million, [ b ] but ultimately, it had no choice.
“The [amendment] is the culmination, the actualization, of a position that Black Americans had advocated for over the course of many, many decades before the Civil War,” Jones told The ...
For a significant period during and after the war, selfless humanitarian interest in the fate of the Cuban people was accepted as the major impetus for the declaration of war. A supporting argument for this line of reasoning is that yellow journalism created an inflammatory mood in the country and swayed public opinion to sympathize with Cuba.
Here’s what Second Amendment actually says: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”