Related events to USA
During the fight for independence, the USA has helped out a lot since they know how hard it is to gain independence.
1804: Haiti (the former French colony of Saint-Dominique) declares independence from France, the second colony after the USA to become independent in America, and the first black slave revolt to triumph against the white masters, and Toussaint L'Ouverture
1817: The USA helps Colombian revolutionaries against Spain
1821: The USA citizen Moses Austin obtains Spain's permission to establish a colony of Anglosaxons in Texas
1823: The USA intervenes in defence of the Latin American states ("Monroe Doctrine") against the Holy Alliance (Austria, Prussia, France, Russia, Spain) that wants to restore the monarchies
1824: The USA becomes the first country to recognize the independence of Brazil
1840: Chile's first steamship starts running (made in the USA)
Dec 1845: Texas is annexed by the USA
Apr 1846: The USA provokes a war with Mexico
Sep 1847: The USA reach Mexico City
Feb 1848: At the end of the Mexican war (treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo), the USA acquires New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and California (almost half of Mexico's territory)
1855: The USA builds the Panama railway
Jul 1855: Benito Juarez returns to Mexico from his USA exile
1855: The USA adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua and appoints himself president
1862: The USA recognizes Haiti's independence
1863: The USA supplies weapons to the Mexican government fighting against France
1872: The USA businessman Minor Cooper Keith opens a banana plantation in Costa Rica
1881: Jose Marti mobilizes the Cuban community in the USA against Spain
1894: The USA sends troops to Nicaragua
1898: The USA defeats Spain and gains the Philippines, Cuba and Puerto Rico, ending Spanish rule in America
1899: Nicaragua becomes a de-facto colony of the USA