America: Write Your Own History

"Mexico has capitulated and is now a vassal of Mexico"

On other subjects, I vote for John P. Hale

Epic cvictory with Mexico. Just make sure they won't collapse (it is really easy). Cass, prepare for the british. What's the situation of wonders?

James Buccaneer Buchanan

I would vote for Cass, but his ideas doesn't seem adequate.

Now the Pirate have good ideas, let's get some oceanic stuff

Scott

It seems no president ever serves two terms these days

-moved-

1852-1856: Industrial Revolution

First, President Pierce announced he would maintain the Compromise of 1850; extending slavery to newly captured territories and calming the issue over slavery temporarily. Second, he pardoned President Scott of war crimes; a move in order to secure Whig votes. President Scott's controversy over war crimes against the innocents of Mexico led to the breakup of the Whig Party -- escalated by the death of their party leader, Henry Clay. A new party, the Republican Party, formed to compete against the Democratic Party's silence of the slavery issue.

Pierce, focusing on a platform of national unity and territorial and economic expansion, focused on opening up relations with Turkey, Thailand and Russia.




He then broke off alliances with Argentina and France, announcing to the world that America is strong enough to stand on its own foundation. Pierce's administration, strangely, would be marked by both funding in expansion and diplomatic isolation.


In July of 1854, Pierce funded the building of the Panama Canal to connect the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean.

In the next few months, after lowering scientific rate to 10 to build up finances for modernizing the American army, war was declared on Japan and troops landed outside of Edo led by Commodore Perry. There, American forces roamed the Japanese countryside pillaging roads and distracting Japanese forces as the American navy sailed through the newly built Panama Canal and cannon divisions reinforced them to bring down the Japanese castles.


Finally, Nicaragua was captured by Spain after infantry reinforcements and constant ship bombardment. As predicted by Hugh Lawson White decades ago, the capture of this colony led to the collapse of the Spanish Empire.


At the end of his first term, America could be seen becoming an industrial power. A military headquarters, in hopes that it would make the American army the most efficient and well-communicating organization in the world, was also commissioned in Chicago called the Pentagon.

Election of 1856: A House Divided

Democratic Party
Platform: Uphold the Union through compromise over slavery. Colonization. Prepare for war with England.
Franklin Pierce, Age 52, President. Former New Hampshire Senator and Representative. Grenadier in Mexican-American War. Personally disagrees with slavery, but says it is necessary to keep the Union together. Wants victory over Edo, to establish America as a silk competitor.

Lewis Cass, Age 74, Former president, diplomat to France, and Michigan Senator and Governor. Wants withdrawal from Japan and immediate peace. Wants to reach out and form alliances with democratic nations again, and topple monarchies in Europe.

James Buchanan, Age 65, Pennsylvania Senator and Represenative and diplomat to Russia. Wants to focus on colonization; promises to push Manifest Destiny to the end of the world. Wants total victory over Japan. Wants to give the South more votes to create balance of slavery and anti-slavery. Wants to enact laws to keep slaves in better health.


Republican Party
Platform: Abolition of slavery. Capture of Sapporo, as to not make Japan unstable. Colonization. Prepare for war with England.
John C. Fremont, Age 43, California Governor and General. Wants to build embassies with all the nations of the world, and fund expeditions to establish these. Wants to establish national parks. Uses slogan "Free Soil, Free Men, Fremont"

John McLean, Age 71, Justice of the Supreme Court. Wants to abolish slavery, but not destroy the South by attempting it. Suggests compensation to the South for slave emancipation. Wants to establish embassies with foreign nations.


American Party
Millard Fillmore, Age 56, New York Representative and Chancellor of University of Buffalo. Anti-immigrant. Wants to promote protestantism in newly annexed regions to uphold American morality and stability. Wants to compromise on slavery to uphold the Union. Wants to prepare for war with Britain, and withdraw troops from Japan as their very different culture will be hard to keep under control. Wants to focus on colonization.


Campaign News:
After an outstanding campaign by the Republicans, who had limited fundings and unestablished organization, Justice McLean wins the election to become the first president to come from the judicial branch! This causes extreme dissidence from the South which refuses to accept any federal decisions which want to overwrite state laws.

Candidate John Fremont returns to his home in California, where he is appointed Commander of the Department of the West for finding better routes for railroads and resources in the somewhat unexplored west. President Pierce, abandoned by his party for being largely indecisive, returns to his wife and travels to Europe. He appeals to compromise, saying that the Republican Party's ideals will destroy the nation. Lewis Cass keeps on living.

McLean promises a safe victory over Japan without destabilizing them, a swift victory over Britain, an expansion of Manifest Destiny into Oceania, Australia, Asia and Africa, and a fair and gradual transition to egalitarianism in the South.

Democratic Party 4
• Pierce 0
• Cass 0
• Buchanan 4

Republican Party 8
• Fremont 2
• McLean 6

American Party 1
• Fillmore 1

Don McLean


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