articles of confederation

Was working on a simple alt hist idea with a friend and am new to this sort of thing and wanted to see if there was any interesting ideas here. Main points of divergence are: 1. The Articles of Confederation fail. There are two many differences between the states and they simply can't...

Originally, on July 4, 1788, Kentucky was slated to be, according to the Enabling Acts passed by Virginia (via the journal article When Did the Articles of Confederation Cease to Be Law?), admitted into the United States as the 14th state under the Articles of Confederation. In our timeline...

I've had a timeline for some time exploring this idea. However, I'm sure there would have to be a lot of changes to OTL in order for Quebec to join the United States. I was thinking that, following the 7 Year's War, Britain attempts a cultural genocide in French North America, limiting all...

So I'm going to do a qbam map series on a usa that disintegrates in its early history, and this is a rough draft of what I have for 1812(ish). I'm personally debating whether the usa should exist here at all as a rump (labeled confederation congress) Any suggestions on how to make this more...

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Chapter 0 Articles Of Confederation Ratified! on July 4th, 1776 the Articles of Confederation were ratified over a dispute between pro-slave factions and anti-slave factions. the compromise...

I’ve seen a lot of discussion about the effect that a failed American Revolution would have on the development of republicanism and liberalism, typically arguing that these ideologies would ultimately be hurt or even delegitimized, but a discussion that I don’t think I’ve ever seen is what would...

As we know, after the collapse of the articles of confederation in 1793 leading to the collapse of the United States of America, several different states rose out, notably the Republic of Virginia and the New England Confederacy, what would have happened if the articles of confederation didnt...

In an ATL where the Articles of Confederation collapse into a domino effect of independent republics and confederations of former US states, how would each nation's dialect develop by today? Is slightly more than 2 centuries enough time for dialects to form notably different from the OTL...

King George III (that Hanoverian tyrant) wanted to cut defense spending associated with the American colonies (Scotsmen picking fights) so he issued the Royal Proclamation in 1763 which created (among other things) a line along the Eastern Continental Divide beyond which Whites could not settle...

Nearly a decade ago (sheesh... am I that old?) there was a thread in the forum about a Constitution for Ameriwanks that sought to optimize the US Constitution as drafted, under the guise of greater framer foresight, for a United States that was ultimately "successful" in uniting the whole of the...

Selina, the Dowager Countess of Huntingdon, was a descendant of the Washington family in England; daughter of one earl (Washington Shirley, Earl Ferrers), widow of another, and mother of a third; a patroness of early Methodism; a Calvinistic opponent of Wesley’s; and, in the end, being forced...

This topic comes up from time to time, and it has always fascinated me. In its early history, the USA was quite literally a rather loose confederation of states. This system, under the Articles of Confederation, proved to be less than ideal for a number of reasons. There is a lot of debate about...

Most American monarchy scenarios tend to have a constitutional, basically democratic parliamentary monarchy, but what about a different scenario, that descends into French/Roman absolutism after civil strife? Here's a basic outline for how that might begin at its earliest. It would take until...

Suppose George Washington gets shot in the head by a disgruntled loyalist at the end of the American Indelendence War, and the newborn american state (or states) finds itself without a proper unifying figure. Or some similar PoD. The Constitution is never written, and the states remain still...