A New Dawn Rising: What if America stuck by her ideals?

Chapter Fifty-One: The Legacy of a father
  • Chapter Fifty-One: The Legacy of a father​

    James Hamilton was a reserved man, quite and considered shy. He was not one for bold and brash moves. He often appeared cold and calculated in his choices following on his father’s legacy. Making choices that seemed good for America ’s future. But James had a heavy weight on his shoulders. many wanted him to be the president his father would of been, his father's legacy had helped him come far but now it became a curse. He was smart but he lacked the drive his father once had, he also lacked any major problems, with America sailing though his presidency with ease. in later historical rankings of president's, Hamilton would be near the bottom simply for being the most boring president of them all. even his social parties where known as boring events. More Often then not, he feared change. To this end, the cabinet would retain a lot of Hamilton’s faithful friends he had already served with. These included:

    Secretary of Defence: Stephen W. Kearny - Stephen W. Kearny was secretary of defence once more despite grumblings from both the naval and the military. Now an older man, he was much more focused on expanding the Monroe doctrine. With the British defeated, the army was deployed to tame what had become known as the wild west. Stephen W. Kearny would begun arms tradeing with Zhang Lexing a Chinese guerrilla leader. Kearny and Hamilton hoped to turn Lexing towards democracy meaning there would be a major democracy in every continent.

    Secretary of State: Abraham Lincoln- When Lincoln took over the state department, he was 39 and a unknown Congressman from Illinois. By the time Lincoln was finished he was known countrywide. He laid the foundation for the construction of the panama cannel, placing Hawaii under an American protectorate status, began talks with Cuban rebels, sent missions to japan and began talks with Australian rebels. Lincoln was an active member of the cabinet, seeking to spread the American message of democracy both far and wide.

    Secretary of the Treasury
    : Levi Woodbury- Levi Woodbury would remain the head of the Treasury. He would do nothing note worthy in the presidency of Hamilton. With a stable economy and projects going well. He began speaking out in 1853 for an education system which was only just beginning to gain traction. Woodbury would be the first secretary to cut the defence budget in 13 years.

    Secretary of home development: Jefferson Davis- Davis was an odd choice to replace Brunel. he represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives. However, the legacy of Brunel would not be destroyed with Davis. Davis would complete the Brooklyn bridge, advance construction on the transcontinental railway system and would begun construction of three monuments (the founding father park in D.C, the burr and Brunel statues in New York) however Davis was efficient at this job for his cruelty working black workers near to death to complete projects faster which was ignored because of his success.​
     
    Chapter Fifty-Two: The Testing Grounds
  • Chapter Fifty-Two: The Testing Grounds​

    The Pepper Coast, also known as the Grain Coast, has been inhabited by indigenous peoples of Africa at least as far back as the 12th century. Mande-speaking people expanded westward from the Sudan, forcing many smaller ethnic groups southward toward the Atlantic Ocean. The Dei, Bassa, Kru, Gola, and Kissi were some of the earliest documented peoples in the area. Between 1461 and the late 17th century, Portuguese, Dutch, and British traders had contacts and trading posts in the region. The Portuguese named the area Costa da Pimenta ("Pepper Coast") but it later came to be known as the Grain Coast, due to the abundance of melegueta pepper grains. European traders would barter commodities and goods with local people.

    The area had been sparsely populated for a long duration of time. Only a few Spanish, Dutch, British and Portuguese ports dotted the coast line. Nobody yet saw the riches of Africa as something they wanted and only saw it as a one stop shop to the more profitable Asia. James Hamilton was puzzled by the treatment of African America ns after growing up with a father who opposed slavery. He wondered often how beter America could be if everyone worked closely together. He knew however he couldent just throw the ideas onto America for it would end badly in the long run.

    James Hamilton had the perfect plan, he would set up a colony in Africa were Americanism would spread, equal rights for all and would see how white and black populations coped. It was a risky move but if it worked it would be the great proof of his theories. The America n Colonization Society (ACS) was established in 1852 to look into the possibility of colonising Africa to test Hamilton’s plans. It was a bold daring move but it would be one congress would support. In 1853, the colonisation of the coast began. It would be here the testing ground was established.

    Hospitals, schools, living accommodation all would be integrated. The America n’s working hard to integrate the native cultures to see how the black and white America ns would work. Though it was not at the hight and size it would become the coolly of Liberia would be considered a success in 1854 and though Hamilton wanted to keep the ACS in Liberia some in America argued they could go even further and help bring America n ideals to more across the globe.​

     
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    Chapter Fifty-Three: Ending A Taboo
  • Chapter Fifty-Three: Ending A Taboo​

    The insane, the disabled, anyone slightly different were all considered no no subjects in America . If your family member showed even the slight sings of problems you shipped them off to mental halls were, they would be locked away and experimented on. many knew it was horrible but nobody spoke out against it. Even the FBST had stopped itself from looking into what made people the way they were. To be anything but pure of mind was a sentence worse then death.

    Dorothea Dix was not ready to sit by any longer. She had begun to call for proper investigation into mental illnesses, proper places for rehabilitation and the understanding of the people. People called her insane and the war of the 1840s led her to become a nurse. Many who knew her expected these times in war to change her mind but Dix had been closer to soldiers effected by what they had seen in the war. As the war ended, Dix picked up her campaign again and began to find favour. The first to openly speek out for reform was Secretary of state Abraham Lincoln, which was a big boom to Dix campaigns.

    In August 1851, Dorothea Dix wrote to Hamilton, urging support for her proposal in Congress for land grants to finance asylums for the impoverished mentally ill. Hamilton, wanting to be fair to all America ns, agreed to speek out causing the act to pass. He then took the step further and began federal funding of the new and improved asylums, making sure care was placed above punishment. Someone people accused the president of playing nice with the crazies. Working with Dix, Hamilton established a new branch of FBST to look into mental and physical problems. Dix became an unofficial advisor to the president, setting up what would eventually becoming the secretary of the health department. With her help, Hamilton began to remove the taboo of mental illness despite it being a slow process.​
     
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    Chapter Fifty-Four: The President in Paris
  • Chapter Fifty-Four: The President in Paris​

    After the war, ironclads became useless but their invention led to a boom in ships. From 1845 to 1850, the ships got bigger and larger allowing for more passengers and faster travel. In 1848, the All-America n group began passenger and cargo services to Europe. It now took just 12 days to cross the ocean. The SS Jefferson was the newest ship rolled of the block. had a capacity of approximately 1,000 third-class and 166 first-class passengers, known at the time as 'steerage' and 'saloon' class. Innovative features included running water and electric bells to summon stewards in the first-class cabins. Portholes in the ship were much larger than on contemporary liners, providing lighter. The saloon dining room was large enough to seat all first-class passengers at once.

    The president had been invited to Paris to meet the new king Henry V. president Hamilton would leave the country in control of the vice president and would travel on the SS Jefferson. The president’s usage of the steamship would lead to another boom in the mid-1850s as ships advanced further and faster. Shipping and passengers’ services had become a large thing in America and created many new jobs for the people as the FBST worked to advanced the ways ship building could be done.

    While in France, president Hamilton would meet with Henry V and French prime minster Alphonse de Lamartine. Trade was discussed and so was the British. It was a basic meeting but it confirmed Franco-America n relations. It was here in France that America would see something new. Open shopping complexes, mini trains in cities, ferries wheel it blew the American mind. It would be ideals Hamilton would take home with him.​
     
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    Chapter Fifty-Five: The Election of 1856
  • Chapter Fifty-Five: The Election of 1856​

    James alexander Hamilton would keep to his father’s rise and not seek a third term. The republicans were once popular but the eight years of Hamilton had led to little progress. As France gained great stores of goods, Britain expanded into India and the Germans meddled with chemicals America seemed to lag behind. Jefferson Davis would seek to replaced Hamilton as president, claiming the republican nomination. Davis was to be a continuation of what had come before, not rocking the boat too much while expanding America at a steady pace.

    The democrats were ready in 1856. James A. Garfield was selected to run for president. Garfield was only 25 and was the youngest candidate. Davis and the republicans would bash Garfield for his youth and inexperience. Garfield however would change the way elections were. His youth and energy allowed him to zig zag around the country, meeting the people and talking to them properly face to face. He held major rallies in cities and handled out pamphlets on his plans. He attacked Hamilton’s lack of change over the last eight years and also attacked Davis treatment of black people the republicans attempted to push davits to do what Garfield was doing but he refused to lower himself to that level.

    Everyone believed Davis would win the election, the media and the establishment believed it would come. But Garfield spoke to the people, he came down from the tower that ruling class had placed themselves in and talked to them. He called for education, the upgrading of cities and the expansion of America overseas. He preached what people wanted to hear and never stoped touring. The election would be called for James A. Garfield. The youngest president, he would bring about changes that had been years in the making.​
     
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    Part Ten: The Presidency of James A. Garfield
  • Part Ten: The Presidency of James A. Garfield​

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    Chapter Fifty-Six: A Cabinet Change
  • Chapter Fifty-Six: A Cabinet Change​

    James A. Garfield was a man many considered out of his depths. Garfield was born into poverty in a log cabin and grew up poor in Northeast Ohio. After graduating from Williams College, Garfield studied law and became an attorney before entering politics as a Democrat in 1854. Garfield had little experience in politics but had many plans for the office. Garfield, though his youth and speech abilities, had manged to gain loyal supporters in congress enouth for what his agenda. First on his agenda were two now cabinet posts. The Health department and department of youth affairs, both were established in order to remove some of the problems Garfield had faced as a child. His cabinet would be different to past one’s as he moved forward to work with those, he believed could do that job. This would cause Garfield to clash with older democrats, setting up a divide in the party. Included in this cabinet was:

    Secretary of Defence: Robert E. Lee - Stephen W. Kearny was finally relived of his post. Garfield had a list of young names drawn up to succeed Kearny as Secretary of defence. Despite being younger, Garfield selected what he considered the very best to be a part of his cabinet. To this end Robert E. Lee would take up the post. Lee was a top graduate of the United States Military Academy and an exceptional officer and military engineer in the United States Army. In his time in office, Lee would build up a strong army that became fully able to deploy its new weapons with full effect, under lee the idea of total warfare would be born. Though he was not well versed in the navy, Lee did begin to move ironclads forward towards becoming Armoured cruises. Under Lee many big names would come to control key parts of the army and big names in America in their own right: these included James Longstreet, Stonewall Jackson, J. E. B. Stuart, Ulysses S. Grant, William Sherman, Samuel R. Curtis and George H. Thomas. Many of these man would become governors of America ’s expanding lands

    Secretary of State: Abraham Lincoln- Lincoln was to leave his seat of Secretary of state but after lengthy meetings with Garfield would remain on. during his second tenure in the office, Lincoln would absorb the ACS and begun expansion of America in the pacific. In 1858, Lincoln and Garfield would approve the Hawaii protection act which would bring the kingdom under America protectorate status but not apart of the union. He would expand America n interests in Africa as European interest grew. He would buy Tahiti from France due to growing European economic problems. Guam, Samoa, the Marshall Islands and north-eastern New Guinea. Due to Lincoln’s actions the British media lambasted the America n’s for being just like they were. Despite this Lincoln did his best to make sure it the colonisation was not an eradication of what already existed in the islands.

    Secretary of the Treasury: Philip Francis Thomas- Thomas would inherit a booming European but things would soon turn sour. The European economy had been shattered by the panic of 1850 and was still feeling the effects. Only now was it starting to trickle over into America . Thomas however would not allow it to destroy the country. He with the president would pass reforms to aid farmers and industrialists keep afloat. Overshadowed by his larger counterparts, Thomas was a key figure in cementing America as the world’s largest European .

    Secretary of home development: Henry Bessemer-
    Garfield struggled to find someone to take the office but found help in the FBST. Henry Bessemer wanted the role and Garfield was glad to offer it to him. Bessemer would work to upgrade trainlines across America and would get the trans- continental railway nearly finished by 1864. Bessemer would work with private companies in New York to complete work on the New York underground which would open in 1866. Bessemer steel became known nation wide as the best steel to use.

    Secretary of Health: Dorothea Dix- a women in charge of a state department sounded like insanity. Many believed Garfield needed removing, and Dix imprisoned for influencing the president. Still Garfield insisted. Despite fighting with the other cabinet members. Despite this Dix would establish the Health code which would establish regulations to improve health care across the country. Dix also used her position to begun pushing for more female rights, starting the suffragette movement.

    Secretary of Youth Affairs: Chester A. Arthur- The Secretary of youth affairs was established to oversee the youth but nobody rearly knew what it was supposed to do. Chester A. Arthur had ideas however. He established workhouses for orphan children where they could live peacefully, he also helped establish laws to protect children from abuse such as rape. Arthur became known as the lawman of the youth for pushing for the execution of anyone who harmed a child in sexual way.​
     
    Chapter Fifty-Seven: A Brush With Death
  • Chapter Fifty-Seven: A Brush With Death​

    James A. Garfield was a popular man in the north and the west. He promised labour reforms which scared the south however. The south relied on using black labour and that was not something. Garfield liked. He believed that a man treated and paid well could work harder for his country benefiting them as a whole. There was a divide growing in America , the radical’s vs the constitutionalists and many in the south believed Garfield was a radical ready to tear apart the country. Garfield however was no radical, he just wanted America to prosper but the south could not see this. When Garfield made it illegal to beat black workers, it infuriated the south who bashed the president. The president was making a trip to Georgia, to unveil a memorial to the fallen heroes of the south, to try ease tension. Garfield had not been briefed on the threat as the military who did guard him were occupied with problems in Utah. As Garfield moved to give his speech that day, a disgruntled business man who had been arrested for abusing a black worker. After running into an African-American civil rights protest, the unnamed man made his way to the speech armed with fire in his blood. As the rain began to pour the man aimed and fired.

    The bullet missed the president by an inch. John Wilkes Booth, recently promoted guard of the president, had been making rounds when he saw the gun. He had tackled the man and the bullet missed. The man attempted to fire again but was stopped by booth. The event shook Garfield and made him slightly a more radical president then he had been before. With the backing of a supportive congress, Garfield would amend the constitution in 1857 to grant blacks the right to vote. Though it was not complete civil protection it was a step in the right direction. Booth was commended for his efforts. Garfield and Congress fearing assassination established the secret service to assume full control over protection of the president and their family plus the vice president. They would also work to suppress counterfeit currency. John Wilkes Booth would be named the first head of the secret service and would become the president’s personal bodyguard lasting in the role till his retirement in 1905 at the age of sixty-seven.​
     
    Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Almost War
  • Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Almost War or The War That Did Not Exist​

    Utah had been settled by Mormons in the decades preceding Garfield’s presidency, and under the leadership of Brigham Young the Mormons had grown increasingly hostile to federal intervention. Young harassed federal officers and discouraged outsiders from settling in the Salt Lake City area, and in September 1857 the Utah Territorial Militia perpetrated the Mountain Meadows massacre against Arkansans headed for California. Despite many believing a war existed between the USA and Utah, Garfield was less inclined to believe it so. Still federal troops did clash with troops of Utah, making some question if a war wash going on or not.

    After Young reacted to the military action by mustering a two-week expedition destroying wagon trains and other Army property, Garfield dispatched, Ulysses S. Grant as a agent to negotiate peace. The mission succeeded, the new governor was shortly placed in office, and the Utah War ended. The president granted amnesty to all inhabitants who would respect the authority of the government. However, there was another problem. Grant had promised to protect Mormon polygamy under the first amendment

    A great debate would ensure in congress on the debate of polygamy. Garfield agreed with grant that it did fall under the religion protection clause of the first amendment. Despite calls from many religious people to stop polygamy for it was a sin, congress and then the supreme court would both agree that it did fall under the first amendment. Mormon polygamy would become legal again and protected by the laws that the constitution stated. It was another win for the radicals​
     
    Chapter Fifty-Nine: The Great Collapse
  • Chapter Fifty-Nine: The Great Collapse​

    The British and Spanish empires had recuperated from their losses in the early 1800s. by the 1850s the British had taken south Africa, parts of India and had consolidated control over Australia and new Zeeland. The Spanish had taken morocco, the Philippines and threatened china with its pacific fleet. Both empires were also industrialising feeding on there hate of the American’s they prepared themselves once more to fight. Laws were harsh but not completely unfair on the population as both empires proceeded to do what they had to do in order to regain what was lost.

    Both countries were ruled by more liberal parliaments by the 1850s trying to put the countries back on stable paths of progress, to try catch up to America and her global allies. It was a slow but steady progress. Both also had monarchies. Queen Victoria led the United Kingdom of Great Britain. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (the fourth son of King George III), and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After both the Duke and his father died in 1820, she was raised under close supervision by her mother and her comptroller, John Conroy. She inherited the throne aged 18 after her father's three elder brothers died without surviving legitimate issue. Charles V was the Carlist King of Spain. He was the second surviving son of King Charles IV of Spain and of his wife, Maria Luisa of Parma. He was a reactionary who stridently opposed liberalism in Spain and the assaults on the Catholic Church. He had claimed the throne of Spain after the collapse of Austria and the exile of the Austrian king of Spain. Despite being monarch, Charles was forced to accept the rule of parliament and rule just as a figure head along bringing stability back to Spain once more.

    Spain and Britain had been growing closer over their shared distaste for America and France. Though some of there colonists did clashed they saw it as friendly war games. To cement this in 1839, prince Carlos of Spain would marry queen Victoria of England cementing the country together. For some it was insanity, any heir born of Victoria would be heir not only to the British throne but third in line to the Spanish throne. There first child Edward Charles was born in 1840. The countries continued into stability until 1850. The Economies of Europe tanked, Spain and Britain were the worst effected starting what is now known as the great collapse. As food became harder to get and unemployment climbed, the industrialising which had taken place now became nothing but empty factories as people took to the streets to protest. In Spain, Charles V died suddenly and Carlos VI took control. He suspended parliament, implemented a draft and worked hard to pull back the Spanish from the edge it found itself on again. Though Carlos VI, Spain and her empire were saved.

    The British were not so lucky, provoked by the Americans for so long the former Colonies grabbed their chances for freedom. The United Republic of Australia and new Zeeland, the commonwealth of south India, the republic of south Africa. All were supported by trade and arms from America . To make matters worse the money to fund the fleet ran dry as the British attempted to keep the army, industry and fleet afloat at the same time. The navy mutinied first and shortly after the army also threw down their arms. In 1854, Queen Victoria was assassinated by a supporter of republican government. Nobody in the country knew who was to take the throne but Parliament was sure it was not going to be the Spanish. Carlos VI was hell bent on claiming the throne for himself however, decreeing it as his and his child’s right. Amassing the fleet in 1858, Carlos VI would sail with the armada to England were he would land in Cornwall. By late 1858, the British Parliament had fled, and Carlos VI was declared King of the United Kingdom of Spain and Great Britain. Following this both Ireland and Scotland would declare independence and form their own United Kingdom which Carlos VI paid little attention to as resistance in England to his rule was harsh.

    Charles Edward Stuart would ascend the Scottish throne as Edward I. Though the Americans’ now had a stronger foe in the United Kingdom of Spain and Great Britain, it had also gained allies in the former British colonies, bonding together on a natural shared bond of breaking free from the British. Carlos VI would come down hard on his two kingdoms. Martial law was enacted, free press and speech ended, a draft implemented and eventually any books considered against the state were to be burned, people to be searched without warning if considered traitors. Carlos VI refused to let his empire fall like the British and Spanish had so many times before.​
     
    Chapter Sixty: The Great Western Rush
  • Chapter Sixty: The Great Western Rush​

    America had stretched from east to west since 1848. The railway had hoped to connect both part of the land. Despite this California, Nevada, Utah, Franklin had no proper significance to America . Mostly empty lands it was a sparse place of lawlessness were all sorts of criminal enterprises thrived. America was content to let this be, slowly taming the wild lands at a slow pace. The government expected it to be fully tamed and the criminals gone by at least 1900 though that was an early goal.
    The East was the complete opposite of the west. By the 1850s, immigration was booming the large cities across the eastern seaboard becoming ever larger. This however was becoming a problem slowly but surely. The cites were expanding at a rapid pace but the population kept on climbing faster then cities could expand causing more and more problems to appear. Garfield was met with this problem. It was impossible to completely rebuild the cities and regulations against the sort of practices that took place were considered too extreme. There was only one way to go but people needed a push to move. The only way to go was west but for now, the people had no incentive to do so.

    Then America hit gold. The Economy was beginning to feel the effects of the 1850 problems of Europe but the discovery in California changed everything. Garfield headed the news in 1868, by 1869 his government began the Great Western Campaign. As news spread of the gold being discovered more and more people began to heed the call. Packing up what they had, they slowly but surely began to migrate west. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California and the other states. Agriculture and ranching expanded throughout the states causing the Economy to boon. San Francisco grew from a small settlement of about 200 residents in 1856 to a boomtown of about 36,000 by 1862. Roads, churches, schools and other towns were built throughout the once empty states. A real interest would grow in the west as it moved from empty states gained in the 1840s to key parts of the union. At the start the mining caused environmental harm, more sophisticated methods of gold recovery were developed and later adopted around the world. His last act of office in 1865, was to open the west to east railway line connecting the country as a whole and increasing the ever-growing migration west. Key cities in America would be founded or aided by the rush west and the railway these included: phoenix, Las Vegas, Albuquerque and san Diego.​

     
    Chapter Sixty-One: The Great Minds of The Later Years
  • Chapter Sixty-One: The Great Minds of The Later Years​

    As the 1860s arrived in America so did the desire to continue the advancements of the country. The FBST pushed harder and faster, competition growing between different investors to bring out the next greatest invention. It was this push that would lead to some of the biggest breakthroughs of the later half the 19th century. These mind’s also included writers who would spread new ideas and made literature a big industry within America . These people included:

    Josephine Cochrane: By the 1860s, more and more women were starting to protest for their rights to vote and serve in jobs. However, men insisted that their job was in the home, a role that was still not simple despite innovations. Josephine Garis Cochran was the inventor of the first commercially successful automatic dishwasher, which she designed in the shed behind her home, she then constructed it engaging the assistance of mechanic George Butters, who became one of her first employees. Despite inventing it to make entertaining easier, the gold rush of the 1850s had led to more income for many and thus the dishwasher’s popularity began to climb allowing housewife’s more free time.

    Samuel Morse: By the 1860s, the telegraph had been around and tested but had never fully taken root in America . By the 1860s however America had expanded further and needed to communicate more easily. Congress appropriated $67,000 to Morse to get him to help establish the telegraph in the capital. By 1867, Morse and his son had established telegraphs in the capital and state buildings. This use of the telegraph and Morse code would lead to the rapid expansion of the telegraph in government institutions then civilian buildings.

    Alexander Graham Bell: Bell would change America and the world. Bell was Scottish by birth and lived in the United Kingdom of Great Britain. When Scotland fell into anarchy shortly after the Spanish invaded, bell and his family would flee to America . It would be here in the 1870s that bell would invent the telephone and change the world. By the 1890s, the telephone began to replace morse code with almost all major governments beginning to use them. Bell and the FBST would also sell them across the world netting in a profit for both. This was not all Bell would do in his many years at the FBST. Bell is also credited with developing one of the early versions of a metal detector and helped found the Deaf and hard of hearing institution in America that would bring about a universal code of Sign language to the country in the late 1890s.

    Henry Ford/ Carl Benz: Carl Friedrich was a German engine designer and automotive engineer. His Benz Patent Motorcar from 1881 is considered the first practical automobile. In 1885, Ford was a growing business man selling products from the FBST overseas. It was here Ford would meet with Benz and together they agreed to work on the automobile. Benz appreciated the ideas and spirt of ford. Together they would go on to form the Benz-Ford motorcar company. The Company converted the automobile from an expensive curiosity into an accessible conveyance that profoundly impacted the landscape of the early 1900s. Ford would die in 1911 leaving the company in the sole ownership of German-American Carl Benz.

    Thomas Edison/Nicola Tesla: Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan after the family moved there in 1854. Edison would join the FBST in 1867 at the age of 20 and in under four years would quickly rise to the top of the bureau. Nikola Tesla was born an ethnic Serb in the village of Smiljan, within the Military Frontier, in Austria Empire on 10 July 1856. Three years after his birth, an Austrian military detachment came by and took his father away. His mother fearing the same for tesla fled to America . By 1876, tesla had joined the FBST and began a competitive working relationship with Edison. Together they would change America . With the alternating current (AC) electricity supply system, the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb. By the late 1880s, the pair alongside the FBST had begun to light up major cities with electricity for the first time.

    Joseph Lister: Lister was born to a prosperous Quaker family in the village of Upton, West Ham, Essex, near London, England. Throughout his youth, Lister found himself rejected because of his religion including the two highest universities in England. In October 1848, Lister attempted to join medical school but was rejected, annoyed he would run away to America and become a doctor in 1849 free from prosecution. It is here were he would eventually work his way up to be noticed by the health department. Lister successfully introduced antiseptic to sterilise surgical instruments and to clean wounds. When it was discovered to work it was quirkily rolled out as a new idea by the health department becoming the first widely used antiseptic in America . Lister's work led to a reduction in post-operative infections and made surgery safer for patients, distinguishing him as the "father of modern surgery".

    Edgar Allan Poe: Poe was a poet and literary critic who also pioneered the form of the short story. His dark writing style was marked with a penchant for the macabre and mystery. He contributed to the development of such genres as horror tales and detective fiction. Within Poe's troubled life reside the clues to how he could conceive of the disturbing stories and poetry for which he is widely remembered today. The rise of the printing industry and literature in the 1840s saw Poe’s fortunes rise and after a near brush with death he would continue writing until his death in 1889.

    Arthur Conan Doyle: Born in 1859, Doyle was wanted by the British army, as every teen had to serve at least two years. When he was 17, he had written humorous stories about the army and its infectiveness which brought the eyes of the army down upon him. Despite living in Scotland, Doyle did not feel safe so he left for America when he was 18. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction and would be a big boom for the book industry. Sherlock Holmes was based around Doyle himself. An exiled detective living in new York who must solve crimes with New York born Doctor Watson.

    Bram Stoker/ H. G. Wells/Lewis Carroll: Herbert George Wells was born at Atlas House, 162 High Street in Bromley, Kent, on 21 September 1866. Lewis Carroll was born in 1832 in All Saints' Vicarage at Daresbury, Cheshire, near Warrington. Stoker was born on 8 November 1847 at 15 Marino Crescent, Clontarf, on the northside of Dublin, Ireland. All three would begin to meet frequently at a writer’s club in 1879. Not knowing they were being watched the three would speek their minds and soon be charged with treason. With help from Charles dickens in America , all 3 would flee together. Once in New York they would form the backbone of Boston writers’ group.

    Wells would go on to write dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. However, he would be best known for his science fiction novels and is often called the "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and the publisher Hugo Gernsback. His most popular book *war of the worlds* is a commentary on Americanism, the American empire, democracy, evolutionary theory, and generally superstitions of the time, fears, and prejudices. Lewis Carroll would go on to become one of the key figures in children’s books, normalising them as more then silly books to entertain children. Most notably Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He was noted for his ability at word play, logic, and fantasy. The poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. He was also a mathematician, photographer and inventor.

    Bram Stoker would write one influential book titled Dracula which was a big hit about an age-old vampire fleeing to Boston. Afterword stoker would take up the job of a teacher as education in America slowly grew. Stoker was a deeply private man, but his almost sexless marriage, intense adoration of Walt Whitman, Henry Irving and Hall Caine, and shared interests with Oscar Wilde, as well as the homoerotic aspects of Dracula have led to scholarly speculation that he was a repressed homosexual who used his fiction as an outlet for his sexual frustrations. Oscar Wilde would join stoker in America in 1896 and would go on to become a big writer on his own.​
     
    Chapter Sixty-Two: The Election of 1864
  • Chapter Sixty-Two: The Election of 1864​

    James A Garfield was considered not only an extremely popular president but an extremely successful one. He completed all he set out to do and left the country in a stronger more stable position. He also increased America n landmass and her allies. Garfield liked the idea of an outsider taking over and so selected an America n explorer, military officer, and politician John C. Frémont to run for office. Frémont like Garfield had ideas all the same. Abraham Lincoln would once again switch parties back to the republicans in 1864 to run against Fremont. Two big candidates of the Garfield era would fight it out. Fremont however had become known as the pathfinder in America and was more well-known across the nation. Though Garfield himself expected Lincoln to win. Freemont would claim the election by four votes. After his defeat, Abraham Lincoln would retire from politics.​
     
    Chapter Sixty-three: You’re Not Garfield
  • Chapter Sixty-three: You’re Not Garfield​

    Freemont had big shoes to fill, and fill them he could not. The social changes that began to rise in the 1860s were not one’s he was prepared to handle. His lack of ability to enact reform led to the rise of the new socialist party. He was considered a Garfield puppet with all the cabinet remaining bar one. Despite enacting some changes, he will always be overshadowed by his predecessor. His cabinet included

    Secretary of Defence: Robert E. Lee - Lee ignored Freemont, considered him both useless and annoying. With the army stable and going strong. Lee turned to the navy. He began the first campaigns in the media to gain recruits for the navy and also worked closely with Hayward A. Harvey on strengthen the fleet as lee believed Cuba would soon be open to America n occupation.

    Secretary of State: William H. Seward- Seward did the impossible that Lincoln could not. He established firm relations with Russia with embassy opening up in both countries. America n and Russian goods began to flow and in 1867 the Alaska purchase went ahead fully bringing north America under America n control. Seward would come under fire however for supporting a government who oppressed democratic movements.

    Secretary of the Treasury: Philip Francis Thomas- Thomas would come under fire by both republicans and socialists. Though the economy was good he was accused of favouriting the rich. When the democrats lost control of the senate, Thomas lost most of his power and all his changes were blocked.

    Secretary of home development: Henry Bessemer and Hayward A. Harvey - Henry Bessemer would keep his role and continue expanding America n infrastructure under the orders of the president Hayward A. Harvey would join him. At first Bessemer was annoyed by this but eventually they pair began to work together to upgrade railroads and more making them more efficient. Together they once again pushed America n transport further than any other country.

    Secretary of Health: Dorothea Dix- Dix would remain, a secret socialist, she pushed for higher nurse wages, better more ventilated hospitals and nurse schools. All of these she would get, dix would be the most popular and successful person in the Fremont cabinet making the women rights movement grew even more.​
     
    Chapter Sixty-Four: Let there be holidays
  • Chapter Sixty-Four: Let there be holidays​

    Freemont’s first goal was to tackle American holidays. It was 1864 and many Americans attempted to celebrate holidays but they found they could not. It was the one thing socialists and democrats agreed on but it would take a full year to define which holidays should be considered. The plan was to give three days of on a holiday with pay for those days so Americans’ could come together and celebrate. It would be the only advance for rights during Fremont’s time in office. These holidays would include:
    Christmas (December 25th)
    Thanksgiving (November 22–28)
    Easter (March 22 – April 25)
    Independence Day (Fourth of July)
    Memorial Day (31st May)
    Washington's Birthday (15th of February)​
     
    Chapter Sixty-Five: A Lame Duck To Soon
  • Chapter Sixty-Five: A Lame Duck To Soon​

    Despite having so many ideas to expand America and to change America . Freemont would never get the chance. Congress would soon become divided between socialists, democrats and republicans who could do nothing but fight. Every time the democrats attempted to pass a bill the other sides would stop it. The only bills to pass were the Alaska purchase and the holiday bill of 1869. Freemont was infuriated by this, that his legacy was being ruined crazy people. He was quoted saying *these dam reds, these purple wearing freeloaders want to work less. I will show them. Shove them down a mine and show them what the meaning of hard work is*. These words would make it out to the media many believed it was Secretary of Health: Dorothea Dix. Freemont was soon hounded by the press and the public as the socialists took control of congress, Freemont began to veto any of their bills and so America fell into what became known as a lame duck session for four years. This time could have been used as in England a Plantagenet king returned Charles Rawdon-Hastings as King Charles the third. Charles would quickly began to industrialise and militarise British society with harsh laws that many suffered under. In congress and in the white house the term lame duck was coined. Despite knowing he had little to no change Freemont agreed to run for re-election in 1868. Meanwhile a new younger figure was rising faster with fiery speeches scaring the democrats and republicans who both had mass flocks of people flooding to this new party. To stop this, the democrats and republicans would reform to put aside their feud to try stop the socialists in the election of 1868.​
     
    Chapter Sixty-Six: The Election of 1868
  • Chapter Sixty-Six: The Election of 1868​

    Though Freemont had agreed to run for election in 1868, he was quickly dropped when the parties reformed. Freemont hated this and began to give angry rants and speeches which alienated his party and the population. Instead, former youth Secretary Chester a Arthur would run for the democratic-republicans, he was young and had ideas. He was also a good speaker but his main weakness was his is inability to agree to reform allways skirting around the issues. It was not helped when Garfield could not name one thing Arthur did that truly impacted America. Robert Todd Lincoln hated the way his father was treated. He did everything for America to try take her forward and had many ideas. Todd Lincoln had seen his defeated father return home in 1864 and was determined to get revenge and also advance the ideals of the party. Only 21 he joined the socialist party in 1864 and though fiery speeches, long detailed written down plans and backing from his father Todd Lincoln rose further and further. He became known as the next Garfield. Todd Lincoln was everything Arthur was not. Chester A Arthur knew he had little to no chance but continued to fight to the very end. At the age of 25, Robert Todd Lincoln was elected president the same age Garfield was, many believed that setting the age to 25 and not 35 had become a wise choice by 1868 despite some disagreeing Robert Todd Lincoln had made many promises and now set out to complete them one by one, if he did, he would cement the socialists as a mainstream party if not he could doom them to the halls of failed parties. One thing was for certain with his election a new age was dawning. The short but sweet progressive era was born.​
     
    Chapter Sixty-Seven : A Cabinet to Reflect America
  • Chapter Sixty-Seven : A Cabinet to Reflect America​

    Robert Todd Lincoln was a smart man who had taken his father’s ideas and adapted to them for his own. Though was he was not considered a true socialist because he had not fully opened himself to full civil rights for all America ns, he had become a voice for the working class. To reflect this Lincoln would make his cabinet as inclusive as he could with a socialist wave sweeping the north, the Canadian provinces and the west the south could do little to stop his plans. To this end the Robert Todd Lincoln cabinet included:

    Secretary of Defence: Ely S. Parker- Lee would retire when Robert took office, in a first for America a native American was elected to the cabinet. Ely S. Parker was considered and outsider but he was by no means useless. He expanded the army to allow native Americans, began the foundations for the American police force, and established the pacific fleet in san-Francisco.

    Secretary of State: William H. Seward- Seward would remain despite some grumblings from socialists. Seward would begin to work on an idea that would surely grow with time. That the former colonies of the Kingdom of Great Britain should come together as allies and trading parters, in a time while Britain was preaching total conquest of all former colonies and was rapidly militarising. He also deepened relations with Russia as alexander ii attempted to reform America . During his time Seward was nearly assassinated by Mexican rebels.

    Secretary of the Treasury: Ada Lovelace - A women in charge of the treasury sounded like insanity. Lincoln however was far from insane. Lovelace would continue the stability of America while also intruding an income tax to America and a property. Lovelace would also set her main focus on education introducing tax cuts for lower income families so they could afford education.

    Secretary of home development: John A. Roebling – Roebling would take over the home department. While previous tile holders had focused on railways, Roebling turned to cities. New York became his project city with ideas for larger roads, sewers and early skyscrapers coming to be tested in New York. Roebling also believed in the idea of railways above cities.

    Secretary of Health:
    Dorothea Dix/ Florence Nightingale - Dix was order now and more cyclical yet she continued in her role. During her remaining four years she would push for more research into cancers and causes of mental illnesses she would seek to upgrade and expand mental health institutions as technology advanced. After four more years, dix retired. Florence Nightingale had moved with her family to America in 1821 after Britain was not considered suitable, she was selected by dix as her replacement and she would not disappoint. Her Health reforms in her four-year term included improving healthcare for all sections of America n society, establishing the connection between bad sanitation and health, and expanding the acceptable forms of female participation in the health care system.​
     
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