In 1836 at the time of the Texas revolution, the Texian population was about 38,000, about 6,000 of which were slaves. By and large most of the 1836 population had come from southern slave states, and one of the primary reasons for the revolution, at least for many Texians, was to insure the...
Long term success as an independent state and actually prospering? That is just ASB. Most likely, the Spanish would conquer most of the southern colonies, while Britain could have reasserted itself and reconquered most of the Northern ones. And don't forget about the French and their secret...
My thought for a TL is that the Constitutional Convention has a much bolder hard line anti-slavery faction, which also gains sympathy and some support from Washington. The anti slavery delegates are pragmatic, but are able to negotiate a compromise that allows slave states to count slaves as a...
Interesting timeline. Took a few posts before I grasped your style, but now that I have figured it out, I like they way you are presenting your timeline. Keep it up.
There was an obvious need for a confederation and cooperation during the war. Post war, the problems with the articles of confederation became apparent; however, the need to protect themselves from Great Britain, Spain and France, kept the states from going their own way after the war...
The POD would need to be significant enough to swing the 1860 election to a perceived neutral candidate. One the slaveholders viewed as toothless, and one the northerners at least viewed as not being in bed with the slaveholders.
But the country was still a lit powder keg and could have...
Hard to believe that even in your alternative universe, that a high school student would be completely ignorant of a 4 year war between the states that ultimately resulted in the division of the country.
You have to remember that during much of the war, and of course during the negotiations for peace, the 13 colonies (or states) were acting as one under the Articles of Confederation. Britain made peace and ceded large chunks of territory not to individual states, but to the United States...
Like the timeline, but this whole slave rebellion is pretty much ASB. If 100s or 1000s of slaved rebelled throughout Kentucky, and somehow managed to organize themselves, the only real goal would be to get themselves into Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, with their families and alive. Now that...
One could probably research the 1860 census records to really determine this, but I would venture to guess that outside of the slave states that remained loyal to the Union, the entire black population throughout the free states would have been something like less than 2% (and probably was less...
In 1845 Texas had a population of around 100K, had little money and lots of debts. Since gaining its independence, it never had firm borders, claiming a much larger area than it could govern or protect, and of course much of the area was still claimed by Mexico. In addition, Mexico was a...
If the Union had won a series of decisive battles within the first 6 months of the war that brought about the surrender of most of the CSA's armies and the collapse of the CSA government, such that the Union is preserved, I think we could see a period of great tension - more so than before the...
Here is another point that I didn't see made in any of the posts above. The percentage of hard core (or even moderate) abolitionists throughout the North was small at the eve of the ACW. So while many, even a majority of Northerners throughout the 1860s, 1870s, and 1880s, may hold a view that...
The CSA before Sumpter was different than the CSA after Sumpter, in that the states of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas had yet to secede. Those 4 states probably made up 60 percent (or more) of the white population of the CSA. So without Sumpter, and without some other act of...
In 1860 at the eve of the Civil War, St Louis was the 8th largest city with 160K people. Chicago was a distant 9th with 112K people. By 1870, while St Louis grew to be the 4th largest city with 310K people, Chicago was a close 5th with 298K people. By 1880, Chicago had blown by St Louis with...