broken united states

What if the United States (1775-1906) hadn't entered a 36-years-long civil war in 1861 over the matter of slavery, falling into warlordism in the 1870s before officially being dismantled in the treaty of Halifax in 1906 into its 18 successors, most of whom to this day tend to be at some war with...

In 1850, the Compromise of 1850 divided North and South to an extreme. Sectionalism was at an all time high. Ten years later, the United States was divided. However, secession was not new. New England threatened to do it in 1814. South Carolina had threatened to in Andrew Jackson's presidency...