new england

The Dominion of New England was an attempt by King Jame II in an attempt to centralize the New England and Mid-Atlantic colonies into one administrivia union. It was highly unpopular with the colonies, especially when Governor Edmund Andros came into power and tried to change some legal and...

Reading into the history of Maryland, I find the original purpose of the colony quite interesting, as it was meant to be a haven for Catholics and religious toleration. In OTL this did not last long and the colony was quickly overtaken by various protestant groups. This I believe was in part due...

I was starting a timeline, in which the USA gets hammered in the war of 1812, due to Alexander Hamilton surviving the duel which killed him OTL and James Madison deciding that he didn't want to become President. In a case where Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia all fall, and James Monroe...

Instead of the region of being made up of six different states of the USA, what if New England was one whole state of the USA since the beginning? What POD's are necessary for this to happen? And how will this effect U.S. politics going forward with New England's population being the highest in...

Hello hello! This is my first attempt at writing a timeline for this site, and it's one I'm quite excited for. This timeline explores a world where the 13 Colonies (or what few of them were around by 1700) never got the chance to form a common American identity and instead separated into three...

Howdy folks, welcome to my newest creative endeavor. The scene opens on a bright, sunny morning at the Massachusetts State House. The grounds are jam-packed with cheering spectators, all of whom had come to see one man - Harrison Gray Otis. Otis, having spoken the final phrase of his oath, had...

King Phillip's War was the English name for a conflict between an alliance of Native American tribes in what is now New England and the Snglish settlers. The English settler population was badly hit by the war (obviously the natives were worse hit in the end). But what if Chief Metacomet had...

In 1606, The Plymouth Company was formed as a division of the Virginia Company and was granted a royal charter along with the rights to the Atlantic coast of North America between 38° and 45° N. Later that year in August, the Richard (a Plymouth Company ship) sailed from Plymouth, England for...

Within the English (pre-union with Scotland) empire, New England had the honor of being where the religious dissidents (i.e. puritans) were shoved out of the way. While Virginia was settled for financial motives consistent with traditional colonialism, New England was mostly a dumping ground...

I read somewhere that a young Oliver Cromwell seriously considered moving to the Plymouth Colony. What would be the ramifications if he did emigrate and, through his natural talents, rose to become a leading figure in the settlement?

This has been explored to a deal even in my TL, however that is only one avenue. For the sake of the thread lets say NE secedes in the war of 1812, and again for the sake of the thread, other than NE, the Wo1812 remains largely the same. What will be the political ramifications of the secession...

After some much needed time away from both content creation and resolving other matters I was dealing with, I am now pleased and excited to, nearly three years after the first thread was started, to inaugurate the new thread for the ever-expansive timeline I have created on this forum. Astute...

“Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.” John Webbe “Let’s say we steal some shit.” Sylvester Stallone (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2) The continent of North America is home to several independent nations...

As we all know, the War of 1812 was a humiliation for America, and after the White House was burnt to the ground by the British, the Hartford Convention declared independence for New England, which distracted the Americans enough for the British to capture the Great Lakes and the Michigan...

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...

For much of its early history, the colony and later state of Connecticut had two capitals: Hartford and New Haven. In 1873, the public voted to have Hartford be its sole capital. A prominent factor in the decision was Trinity College donating part of its land to be part of the capital building...

I’m writing a TL, where essentially the United States sort of breaks up before the constitution is ratified. New England, New York, and Carolina (NC, SC, and GA) break off around 1789 and a rump US remains. At some point in the 1910s or 1920s I want these countries to come back together to...

In 1948, a young George HW Bush had just graduated from Yale and he needed a way to make a living. His uncle offered him a job at a prominent Wall St firm, which would've allowed Bush's family to remain in Connecticut while he worked in NYC. But instead Bush decided to relocate Texas and try his...

STARS, STRIPES AND A PINE Stars, Stripes and A Pine, Post #1: The War of 1812 was meant to be a quick war, an easy war, a “Second War of Independence” that would be as great as the first…or at least, would’ve been. No-one expected a British victory in Baltimore. No-one anticipated the death of...

How come Halifax and Portland in are less industrialised and less populated than the one you see in Boston in our timeline? Halifax is a city in Nova Scotia, Canada, with a population with over 400,000 people and approximately about 400,400 at metropolitan scale total, which is not pretty low...