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| 1900 |
| | | Puerto Ricans are granted limited democracy in a bill of rigfhts introduced after two years of US military occupation | |
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| c. 1900 |
| | | Rubber brings prosperity to Manaus, thousands of miles up the Amazon | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Venezuela defaults on European interest payments and is soon threatened by British, German and Italian warships | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Cuba becomes independent after three years of US military rule, with certain restrictions imposed by the Platt Amendment of 1901 | |
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| 1903 |
| | | Cuba is forced to accept a permanent US military presence in Guantanamo Bay | |
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| 1903 |
| | | José Battle is elected president of Uruguay and proves to be a visionary politician | |
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| 1903 |
| | | A US warship appears off the coast of Panama in support of rebels declaring an independent republic | |
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| 1903 |
| | | The Colombian government rejects the Hay-Herrán treaty with the US on the Panama canal, thus prompting the break-away of Panama | |
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| 1903 |
| | | The USA is granted exclusive control in perpetuity of a ten-mile corridor across Panama, suitable for a canal | |
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| 1904 |
| | | The US consul in Mexico, Edward Herbert Thompson, begins a very profitable excavation at the Mayan site of Chichén Itzá | |
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