early republic

  1. WI: Kentucky Is Admitted as a US State Under The Articles of Confederation in 1788

    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...

  2. America Without a Bay: A Divided Country
    Threadmarks: Prologue: An Old Colony with New Challenges

    Prologue: An Old Colony with New Challenges For several decades, Massachusetts was regarded as one of, if not the outright most important of the English colonies in North America. Massachusetts was the site of one the first permanent English settlements in North America outside of Virginia...

  3. AHC: States Secede From the Union After the Constitutional Convention But Before The War of 1812

    The period between 1787 and 1815 was perhaps the most unstable period in American history due to the government being new and the people unsure of how it would be functioning alongside political divisions between federalism and anti-federalism. Your challenge is to have at least one state secede...

  4. Southern-Less USA 2.0: A Nation Torn Apart

    Hello, I had previously abandoned TL-1828: A Southern-Less USA because I felt like it was just a proto-CSA TL, and I was mostly interested in what a CSA victory would look like at the time as my primary topic of interest on here. However, now that I've moved past that and found that the colonial...
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