On submission of the matter to a vote of the cabildos, most of them approved reunion with the northern neighbor.
Salvador alone among the provinces held out until troops from Mexico overcame its resistance.
On the continents of America, Spain had now lost nearly all its its possessions.

In 1822 the United States had already acquired East Florida on its own account, led off in recognizing the independence of the several republics.

Only in Peru and Charcas the royalists still battled on behalf of the mother country.

In the West Indies, Santo Domingo followed the lead of its sister colonies on the mainland by asserting in 1821 its independence; but its brief independent life was snuffed out by the negroes of Haiti, once more a republic, who spread their control over the entire island.

Cuba also felt the impulse of the times.