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Probably, but the fact that llamas evolved as mountain animals, while horses evolved on the plains, means they will always be inferior as long distance transportation. Personally, I don't believe that some animals are "completely un domesticatable". even zebras, with enough time and selective...

Much of what was needed to spur a revolution in society-culture-technology was already in place and slowly working its way into populations of North America. Metal working, crop rotation, specialization etc. The big hinderance was the lack of large scale inter cultural interaction and trade...

The real change here needs to be a different course for black leadership and thus the Civil Rights movement. Booker T. Washington stressed education and entrepreneurship over direct confrontation. In many areas this was working. (Building wealth within a minority group is a much more solid...

Prevent? Not, completely. Greatly reduce...very much so. It was free land on the Ottawa peninsula that drew many loyalists to Canada after the war. As I said, perhaps this could occur on the south bank of the St. Lawrence but the numbers would be reduced. Amending the Quebec Act would...

A failed Gadsden Purchase in 1853 could very well have knock on effects of garnering more support from the South for Walker's expedition to Sonora-Baja. There was a lot of unrest in northern Mexico during Santa Anna's latter reign. Furthermore there were several cross border incidents in the...

I've some pretty interesting evidence that Franco was hung-ho to join the Axis side in the May-July 1940 timeframe. He was rather enamored by Hitler and it was only the active efforts by Canaris that dissuaded him. (Along with the arrogant attitude of the German ambassador to Spain at the...

Conflict between the US and Spain over Cuba is almost a given. This scenario just changes the trigger. Perhaps the US shows restraint during the war, but I have my doubts. Spain has a long history of being very stubborn regarding possession of Cuba. It is very likely that the US manufactures...

While Britain was contemplating an alliance with Japan as early as 1895 they still wanted open access to China via Hong Kong. If we posit that Japan goes to war with Spain in 1896 than things will immediately change. Britain, France, Russia, the Netherlands and the US might even come together...

The Union is in a much better position to fight a long war in 1861 than America was in 1775 and yet the outcome is now well known. It would be difficult but the situation is in very little way comparable to France in 1871. Besides Britain has her own number of issues to consider both...

Saphroneth, great timeline. I'd really like to believe the Union could defeat both the CSA and the UK but while that's a possibility it's far more likely to go the way you have stated. Of course if Lincoln and company are willing to fight a long war Britain will begin to run into trouble...

That's pretty easy. There was already a lot on animosity over Spain's push for an Indian territory between the Miss and the Appalachians. Furthermore there were conflicting views over portions of western Florida and most importantly the US saw free travel down the entire Mississippi as...

Had things gone a bit differently Delaware might have ended slavery in the late 1840s, but anything else is a no go. The only semi-realistic way to do this is to have more free states but that causes other problems. Benjamin

Nice start. Not sure how believable direct taxation would be this close to the end of the war, but a regressive type of tax that exempt wealth held in slaves I'd doable. The vast majority of wealth for the sourhern upper class was in land and slaves. A property tax on land, buildings and...

As some others have said, more troops would help with the short term problems; protecting museums, securing arms, restraining Iraqi soldiers, etc. But the long term issues remain and these came about through a combination of arrogance, short sightedness, over optimistic assessments and out...

No Baja I never understood why the U.S. didn't just buy Baja from Mexico. This would have made defending the west coast of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean Confederate railroad and port nearly impossible. Of course there is a lot of stuff in TL 191 that irritates me. Benjamin

I know, but until the 1960s the base of Republican power was still very much in the North. Roosevelt was able to tap into the fear of the Great Depression to gain much broader support than otherwise would have occurred. Besides FDR ran on a populist style platform that played very much to the...

I have seen both of those. I've been around here for a long time. You weren't around when 67th Tigers was here, were you? His take on the ACW was interesting to say the least. Find some of his posts regarding the greatness of George McClellan if you want some good eye rolling material...

As much as we seem very much on the same page regarding the ACW I must admit only skimming BROS. I'm slowly revamping my old War of the Two Commonwealths and have a tendency of unintentionally pilfering ideas. That's something I'm trying hard to avoid but I think I'll give your TL a gander...

Depends on if the Radicals Republicans can paint the Dems as traitors and thus take over the Republican Party or if the Radicals are forced out to form their own Party. Could go either way; I'm not wedded to either outcome. The war is, politically, won or lost in the East. Most likely...

Good question. Depends on if a pro-Liberty party had formed and how harsh the Treaty that ended the War was perceived to be. Did the shorter Civil War produce any war heroes, especially someone who stood against the Brits? How about a War hero with a pro-War Deoncrate turned Republican as his...