Challenge: Untied states covers the Americas by 2000

With a POD after 1803, your challenge is for the USA to cover North and South America by 2000.
 
With a POD after 1803, your challenge is for the USA to cover North and South America by 2000.


Well, start with Decades of Darkness. Then have them eat Canada when it splits up and gobble up the rest of South America.

Edit: You'd also need New England to fall apart, but that's doable in the fifty odd years between the end of DoD and the target date.
 
Hmmm. Kindly explain which nation was the "Untied" States.

Now, in all seriousness, take manifest destiny to a new extreme. Starting with a war of 1812 that ends in total American victory and the annexation of Canada, have the Mexican War work out in total conquest of Mexico. The USA establishes protectorates over the Caribbean following this war, and begins using slave labor on a Panama canal. The proximity of Panama and Mexico gives the USA a reason to annex the rest of central America. While Canada and Alaska are broken up and admitted as free states, Latin America is broken up into large slave states for Southern equality in the Senate. The Caribbean is taken in a situation similar to the Spanish-American War IOTL.

Past that, things get fuzzier. It is harder to find a motive for US involvement in South America.
 
I'd say this is ASB. About two hundred years to span two entire continents, including territory controlled by major world powers, and several nations that aren't exactly weak on their own? Conquering Brazil, for example, would be tough work, especially if Europe joins in. And I'm sure as the US begins conquering nation after nation, South America will make some sort of attempt to band together, instead of letting the continent get picked apart piece by piece.
 

Skokie

Banned
There were the stirrings of a plan for the US to launch an invasion of Latin America in 1798, at the behest of Venezuelan revolutionary Sebastian Francisco de Miranda in some conversations with Rufus King, the US ambassador in London. The US would provide an invasion force of 50,000.

Adams was not buying it, but Hamilton was very enthusiastic. Further, we have Jefferson writing about an "Empire of Liberty" that would presumably encompass all of the Americas and then the world at some future point.

So, it's not completely ASB. It would bring the US into direct conflict with the great powers, which would probably help justify expansionism in the eyes of both US-Americans and Latin Americans to keep Europeans out of "our" hemisphere. I could see it work by 2000.
 
Here's an idea. the US, after total victory in 1812 as well as in 1848, decides that total annexation will not be good, so they work to make Latin America into satellite states, for exmple United States of Great Colombia.

Eventually, they become so integrated that they request annexation.
 

Jasen777

Donor
There were the stirrings of a plan for the US to launch an invasion of Latin America in 1798, at the behest of Venezuelan revolutionary Sebastian Francisco de Miranda in some conversations with Rufus King, the US ambassador in London. The US would provide an invasion force of 50,000.

Except the U.S. didn't have 50,000 troops and the militias would refuse to serve in such a venture.
 

Skokie

Banned
Except the U.S. didn't have 50,000 troops and the militias would refuse to serve in such a venture.

My point is that the idea was out there. Someone had raised the question of the motive for US involvement in South America.
 
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