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During the 19th century, millions of German immigrants arrived in the US, and today German-Americans make up the country's largest group. My challenge/question is this: How do we get a similar phenomenon to occur with French immigrants to the US, without necessarily averting the French...

Is it possible, given the linguistic differences between Cantonese and Mandarin, that an independent Cantonese nation could be formed in southern China, possibly at some time in the 19th century?

I wasn't sure whether this belonged in the Q-BAM thread or not, so I thought I'd just start a new thread. Anyway, here's a Pacific-centered version of the Q-BAM that I've been working on. It's been exhausting, and the borders are still extremely messy. If anyone wants to help out with any of the...

The demonym "American" has always seemed kind of inaccurate. Although it is the United States of America, plenty of South Americans and Canadians would consider themselves "American" in the continental sense. So, with a PoD of 1800, is it possible for an alternate term for US citizens to...

Is it possible for the Boxer Rebellion to turn into some massive, China-wide guerilla conflict against the Great Powers? If so, how long could the rebels last?

The treatment of the native americans by the US government is probably one of the worst parts of American history, right up there with slavery. What I'm wonder is, in a timeline in which the US manages to get most of its OTL territory, is there any way to still have a significant percentage of...

In the Adams-Onis Treaty, the USA is referred to as "The United States of North America", with suggests that the name might have been fluid or changeable early on. With a PoD no earlier than the Constitutional Convention, is it possible for the United States of America to have a different name...

I think everyone more or less agrees that the Partition of India was handled poorly, and caused a lot of needless deaths. What I want to know is what would have been the best way to do it, if it needed to be done at all?

With a POD no earlier than 1803, is it at all possible for Napoleon to win? By win, I mean come out of the Napoleonic Wars with French dominance over most of Europe intact.