ACW: Alternate Union Victory

hey, all. as part of my ATL, the ACW still occurs (there's still disputes in america over slavery, so why not?) and its still a union victory over the CSA. i plan for the events of the war to pretty much go as they did IOTL, but there's a few differences. for one, there's another significant power in the americas that is closely allied to the united states: the Aztec Empire. second, France is a little more closely allied to US. it could very well be that these two external powers stay out of the fight because, for france, its just too far away to really warrant their entry, and for the aztecs, it may be that theyre torn between the two countries, which they do technically both support, so they stay out of the fight there. but if at least the aztecs join in (theyre basically a more stable mexico ITTL) and attack the CSA from the south and west, how do you all think the war would go? would it end sooner? what would happen immediately afterwards: could lincoln escape assassination, or would the reconstruction go more smoothly, or would it be as IOTL?
 

Anaxagoras

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Had the Aztec Empire survived into the 19th Century, the overall course of the history of the Americas (and the world as a whole) would have been so radically different that the United States as we know it would never have existed.
 
okay, a stable, pro-american mexico, then. any input?

A pro-American Mexico is kind of hard to see a bare twenty years after certain unpleasantnesses. Of course, taking away Guadalupe Hidalgo will so radically change the face of the USA the Civil War will be unrecognisable. Not impossible, just really radically different. ATL, you could see a reasonably stable (if rather oppressive) and perhaps unexpectedly rich (California) Mexico supporting the Union because of concerns over potential designs the southern states could have on Texas and points south.
 
butterflies and ASB aside, what do you think would be the effects of mexico helping the union, or splits between mexico in which it officially helps the union but lots of mercenaries join the CSA?
 
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