Fo any items not seem to follow from previous items? What's the first time you went "as if, is that guy high or something"?
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1776 - The thirteen American colonies (Massachusets, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia) declare their independence from Britain, and form the United States of America.
1783 - The United States' War of Independence ends with the Treaty of Paris. England cedes Florida to Spain, the southern part of its northern colonies (which will become part of Ohio and Missouri) and recognizes the Mississipi River as the US' western boundary.
1803 - Spain cedes Louisiana back to France, which promptly sells the territory to the USA.
1818 - The USA acquire Florida, Cuba and Hispaniola from Spain.
1820 - The Missouri Compromise sees Missouri and Maine admitted to the Union as free states.
1836 - Texas declares its independence from Mexico.
1845 - California declares its independence from Mexico.
1845 - Efforts by the USA to annex Texas fail.
1860 - The Election of Abraham Lincoln and the Slavery Issue sends the United States into Civil War. The South (Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Jefferson, Louisiana, Cuba and Hispaniola) secedes. Arkansas, Tennessee and Vandalia remain with the Union. The 38 western counties of Virginia join the North and form the state of Blue Ridge. England and France join the conflict on the side of the Confederate States of America.
1861 - The Mormons establish the nation of Deseret near the Great Salt Lake.
1862 - The war goes badly for the USA. Lincoln is assassinated. Attacked from all sides, the USA is forced to sue for peace. It recognizes the CSA, cedes the Oregon country and Massachusets, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Rhode Island and Connecticut to England, which places them under martial law. England then sells the land south of the Columbia River to California. After plebiscites, Arkansas and the eastern parts of Tennesse and Vandalia join the CSA. Blue Ridge remains a state of the Union.
1880 - Martial law is lifted over a pacified New England.
1883 - England divides its American colonies into the British States of America (Vancouver, Columbia, Emerson, New Glasgow, Manitoba, Northern Territories), Canada (King, Ontario, Wisconsin, Michigan, Québec), New England (Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusets, Rhode Island, Connecticut) to facilitate administration.
1885 - The USA partitions the Northwest Territories into 8 new states.
1910-1915 - The Great War rages on in Europe. Allies of England and France send troops overseas. The USA remain officially neutral, but secretly sell weapons to the Entente powers. England and its allies fight the Entente to a standstill, but France is thrown to the wolves. French exodus to the Province of Québec begins.
1917 - Pressured by England, California and Texas abolish slavery. England encourages freed slaves to travel north to the BSA, where they are promised a plot of land to work.
1922 - The CSA government, under pressure to end slavery but unwilling to do so, works out a deal with England. It will free its slaves if England provides the plantations with technology that will facilitate cotton farming. The freedmen who are not needed to work the plantations are deported to Cuba, Hispaniola and Africa.
1924 - Women get the vote in the British Possessions and California.
1931 - Women get the vote in the USA.
1947 - The Province of Québec leaves Canada. The Canadian government turns over control of the St. Laurent Seaway in exchange for free passage and mining rights in the north of the new republic.
1955 - Women and blacks get the vote in the CSA. Segregation still exists in the CSA.
1977 - Segregation is abolished in the CSA.
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I wanted to make Québec séparatisme a viable option earlier than in real life so that's why I assumed a French exodus, but it seems forced. Also, I can't really imagine how Britain and France could have backed the CSA during the Civil War (Harrison's notion doesn't cut it for me...) Finally, even without California, Texas and the South, it's clear that the US are top dog in this Balkanized North America... if my memory serves me right, New Englanders were some of the most rabid patriots during the War of Independence. Can anyone think of a way for New England to become an independent nation without desires to re-join the US as soon as the British forces leave?
can no one see a way to save it?
But too much of it is only about WW2, Hitler and American Civil War...and this one seems no different.
