The advantages of being a patriot would be that they were fighting for freedom. A disadvantage would they were most likely poor and untrained. An advantage of being a loyalist would be that you have an army on your side. A disadvantage would be you lived a less free life.
The "gadget" was the nickname of the first atomic bomb which was detonated<span> at the Trinity test site outside Alamagordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. This plutonium implosion-type bomb was similar to the "Fat Man" bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.</span>
The two key provisions of the Platt Amendment required:
- The concession of Cuban territory for American military and naval bases.
- The permission to the Americans to intervene in the island to preserve order, life, property, and liberty.
The Cuban Constitutional Convention acceded to the demands, and the amendment started to regulate Cuban‐American relations until it was abolished in 1934.
