civil war prevented

One might remember that during the 1840s, there was growing debate over the idea that America would under go a civil war caused by the debate over slavery. However, such fears didn't come to pass when the middle and lower class southern farmers began to rally in opposition to the unfair...

For my very first post, I have decided to explore whether it is possible for the slavery debate to have ever ended peacefully - or if the American Civil War was truly inevitable. Your challenge is, with a PoD no earlier than 1830, have the Slavery Debate peacefully resolved one way or the...

So, assume that Abraham Lincoln does not get elected in 1860, and Stephen Douglas becomes president instead. He throws some bones to WASP conservatives, maybe even negotiates a provision that would allow for gradual abolishment of slavery in the southern states with compensation for the...

IIRC, after victory in the American Civil War, the dominant Republican party of the United States provisioned for the reorganization of the western territories and their admission into the Union as pro-GOP states (after some gerrymandering, of course). So, assume that the ACW is delayed for...

What if the Nigerian Civil War of the late 1960's, which saw rebellions spring up everywhere in the country (most notably Biafra) and left a lot of infrastructure and economic potential destroyed, had not happened? I mean, considering the country's ethnic composition, some civil strife was...