The United States of America

The polignac memorandum said that the british and french would not help spain recover her lost colonies. Economic free trade and political independence would be the order of the day in south america. Meanwhile, on the other side of the atlantic, the united states watched the end of the napoleonic wars and the rise of the holy alliance with unease. The us refused to send boat loads of guns to rebels in south America; even made it a crime for Americans to do so in private capacity.